Political will and personal belief : the decline and fall of Soviet communism /

"Paul Hollander focuses on the human aspects of the failure of Soviet communism. He examines how members of the Soviet political elite, leaders in communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary, high-ranking officials in agencies of control and coercion, and distinguished defectors and exiles experienced...

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Author / Creator: Hollander, Paul, 1932-2019.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.
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505 0 |a The human factor in the failure of communism -- Defectors and exiles: disillusionment before the fall -- Soviet leaders: the reformers -- The ambivalence of high-level functionaries -- The political transformation of East European leaders -- Leading specialists in "state security" (political police) -- Conclusions: the unity of theory and practice -- Appendix: the interviews. 
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