Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms

by Kelley; Larry D

• ISBN13: 9780873328296
• ISBN10: 0873328299
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction The New Soviet Legislature: How Ideas and Institutions Matter	p. 3
The New Legal Framework	p. 15
The Path of Constitutional Reform in the USSR	p. 17
Electoral Reform	p. 33
The New Soviet Legislative Branch	p. 51
The Formation Of New Parties And Political Groupings	p. 77
Gorbachev's Reforms and the Factionalization of Soviet Politics	p. 79
The Challenge to Soviet Democracy from the Political Right	p. 105
Party Formation and Deformation on Russia's Democratic Left	p. 129
The Functioning Of The New Supreme Soviet	p. 151
Legislative-Executive Relations in the New Soviet Political Order	p. 153
Parliamentary Government in the USSR	p. 175
Soviet Defense and Foreign Policy and the Supreme Soviet	p. 205
Index	p. 239
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