A01=Roy D Laird
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agricultural reform policy
Author_Roy D Laird
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Brezhnev Eras
Brezhnev Politburo
Candidate Politburo Member
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Collective Contract System
Comrade Khrushchev
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CPSU Secretariat
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Democratic Labor Party
demographic changes
empirical political science
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Full Politburo Member
Full Voting Member
Gorbachev
Gorbachev era
Gorbachev Politburo
Khrushchev Era
Khrushchev Legacy
Khrushchev's Rule
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leadership succession USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Politburo Member
Politburo Membership
Politburo Politics
political elite turnover
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quantitative political history
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Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
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Soviet leadership analysis
Soviet policy change analysis
Soviet Supreme Leaders
Stalin Politburo
Worker Homes
Younger Men
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- ISBN 9780367310295
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 151 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 23 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Using both qualitative and quantitative analysis, Dr. Laird has compiled a unique catalog of data on every member of the Politburo since 1917. Central to the analysis is a "change index" that provides a running measure of politically motivated changes in Politburo membership. Examining continuities and changes in the Politburo over the years, the author shows that within each of the major leadership eras there were important subperiods marking significant policy changes. He also uses the index, along with other empirical measures, to explain successes and failures of specific policy initiatives. In the final chapters, Dr. Laird identifies the major constraints facing the post-Brezhnev leadership and offers evidence that Gorbachev will likely attempt major economic and administrative reforms, especially in the critical area of agriculture. Because Gorbachev does not yet have the "votes" to initiate reforms, however, major efforts cannot be expected until later in the 1980s when a second period of "the Gorbachev era" is expected to begin.
Roy D. Laird is professor of political science and Soviet and East European studies at the University of Kansas.
