Russia's Revolution from Above, 1985-2000

"[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries, upper-division undergraduates and above." --P. Rutland, Choice "Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings in the post-Soviet era." --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona "This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews." --The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of substantive strengths." --Slavic Review "[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries, upper-division undergraduates and above." --P. Rutland, Choice "Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings in the post-Soviet era." --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona "This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews." --The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of substantive strengths." --Slavic Review -[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries, upper-division undergraduates and above.- --P. Rutland, Choice -Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings in the post-Soviet era.- --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona -This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist

Gordon M. Hahn is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group, San Jose, California.

Introduction The Model of Revolution from Above The Breakdown of Institutional and Political Unity The Organization of Political Groups in the Party-State and Society Dual Sovereignty from Above and the XXVIIII CPSU Congress The First Soviet Pact-Making Episode Gorbachevs Turn to the Right Reaction Polarization and Revolutionary Crisis Politics The Nascent Soviet Transition Pact The Hardline August Coup The Revolutionary Seizure of Power and the Aborted Soviet Pact Tentative Conclusions About Russia and the Revolution from Above