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The Government of the Soviet Union

by Samuel N. Harper, Ronald Thompson,. 372 pgs.

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Contributors:

Samuel N. Harper, Ronald Thompson,

Publisher:

Van Nostrand Co

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

1949

Subjects:

Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-

Table of contents

	CONTENTS
	Preface	vi

I.	THE POLITICAL HERITAGE	1
1.	The Tsarist autocracy	1
2.	The Imperial Duma	5
3.	Legal class divisions	10
4.	The professional revolutionary	13
5.	Russia on the eve	17
II.	TIME-TABLE OF THE REVOLUTION	22
1.	The seizure of power	22
2.	"War Communism"	26
3.	New Economic Policy	30
4.	First Five-Year Plan	33
5.	Second Five-Year Plan	37
III.	THE FAMILY OF NATIONS	41
1.	Geo-political unity	41
2.	National diversity	44
3.	Soviet nationality policy	48
4.	Soviet federalism 51
IV.	THE COMMUNIST PARTY	57
1.	The vocation of leadership	57
2.	The Party pyramid	61
3.	Joseph Stalin	66
4.	"Democratic centralism"	70
5.	The "monolithic" Party	74
6.	Bolsheviks old and new	78
V.	THE MASS ORGANIZATIONS	82
1.	The Webbian synthesis	82
2.	Organization of the workers	86
3.	Organization of the peasants	89

4.	Organization of the youth	93
5.	Party-soviets-mass	95
VI.	THE SOVIET ASSEMBLIES	100
1.	The origin of the soviets	100
2.	The constitutional forms	104
3.	Participation by the masses	109
4.	Control by the Party 115
VII.	SYNTHESIS I: LEGISLATION	120
1.	The masses and legislation	121
2.	The Party and legislation	124
3.	The soviets and legislation	127
4.	The Supreme Soviet	130
5.	Legislative procedure	135
VIII.	THE STATE ECONOMY	139
1.	"One big factory"	139
2.	The Council of Ministers	142
3.	The administrative apparatus	147
4.	The planning process	150
5.	Balancing the system	153
6.	The state budget	157
7.	"Socialist accumulation"	161
IX.	THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE	164
1.	The "classless society"	164
2.	The obligation to work	169
3.	The end of equality	174
4.	The new "intelligentsia"	178
5.	The protection of property	183
X.	SYNTHESIS II: ADMINISTRATION	187
1.	The bureaucratic pyramid	187
2.	Control by the ministries	191
3.	Control by the soviets	196
4.	Control by the masses	199
5.	Control by the Party	203

XI.	ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION	207
1.	The "Party line"	207
2.	Organized opinion	211
3.	"Self-criticism"	216
4.	The system of elections	221
XII.	SOVIET JUSTICE	227
1.	Justice and defense	227
2.	Revolutionary legality	231
3.	The judicial system	235
4.	The political police	238
5.	The labor camps	244
XIII.	THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL	248
1.	The bill of rights	248
2.	The "socialized wage"	251
3.	Role of the school	254
4.	Role of the family	257
5.	Role of the church	260
6.	Opportunity under the Soviets	263
XIV.	NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM	267
1.	The Communist International	267
2.	"Socialism in one country"	270
3.	Collective security	274
4.	The national tradition	277
XV.	WAR AND PEACE	281
1.	The Soviet Army	281
2.	Control of the army	285
3.	Government on a war basis	289
4.	The two worlds	293
	APPENDICES	299
	Annotated Bibliography	299
	Diagram of Soviet Government	325
	Constitution of the USSR	326
	INDEX	363

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