Communist Politics: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: The Comparative Study of Communist Politics....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-8
The Communist Movement: from Monolith to Polymorph....Pages 9-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-26
Elections in Communist Party States....Pages 27-54
The Supreme Soviet and Budgetary Politics in the USSR....Pages 55-72
The Institutional Development of a Minimal Parliament: the Case of the Polish Sejm....Pages 73-97
Yugoslavia: Towards Self-Management?....Pages 98-115
State Reforms in the People’s Republic of China since 1976: a Historical Perspective....Pages 116-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-134
The Soviet Communist Party: Trends and Problems....Pages 135-156
The Polish Party in Crisis, 1980–82....Pages 157-172
The Communist Party of Cuba since the First Congress....Pages 173-191
Party-building since Mao: A Question of Style?....Pages 192-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
Interest Groups and Communist Politics Revisited....Pages 221-242
The Impact of the Military on Soviet Society....Pages 243-259
Inequalities and the Politicization of the Polish Working Class....Pages 260-279
Worker-Party Conflict in Romania....Pages 280-291
Economic Policy-Making in China....Pages 292-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-316
From Soviet Studies to Comparative Politics: the Unfinished Revolution....Pages 317-325
Human Rights under State Socialism....Pages 326-345
Worker Welfare Systems in Marxist-Leninist States: a Comparative Perspective....Pages 346-360
Does Socialism mean Greater Equality? A Comparison of East and West along Several Major Dimensions....Pages 361-379
Back Matter....Pages 380-416