Subverting the System
Gorbachev's Reform of the Party's Apparat, 1986–1991
Samenvatting
Deals with the internal evolution of the regime in the final years of Soviet power. This book examines the contradictory approaches, taken by Gorbachev in relation to the role and organization of the Communist Party, which paralyzed the party as a functioning political organization and provoked a dynamic that led to the fall of the system.