Authority, power, and policy in the USSR : essays dedicated to Leonard Schapiro

## Preface to the 1 g83 Reprint We are happy that demand for this work has been such as to lead our publisher to reprint in paperback as well as hardcover. The book appears to have been found useful by students as well as by specialists and it is good that it will now be more readily accessible. The main body of the text remains unaltered, for it has not been necessary to bring it up to date. The combination ofbroad historical perspectives and more theoretical approaches adopted by the editors and contributors means that the book retains whatever relevance it had on first publication. By way, however, of updating Chapter 8, it is worth mentioning the deaths of two of the leading figures in Brezhnev's Politburo-in December 1980 of A. N. Kosygin (who from October of that year had ceased to be Chairman ofthe Council of Ministers) and injanuary 1982 ofM. A. Suslovand as an important development relating to Chapter 9, the removal from Moscow and exile to the city of Gorky in January 1980 of Academician A. D. Sakharov. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Leonard Schapiro as Student of Soviet Politics....Pages 1-8 A Conceptual Approach to Authority, Power and Policy in the Soviet Union....Pages 9-31 Authority, Power and the State, 1916–20....Pages 32-56 The Spark that became a Flame: the Bolsheviks, Propaganda and the Cinema....Pages 57-76 Socialism, Centralised Planning and the One-Party State....Pages 77-97 Political Myth and Stalin’s Quest for Authority in the Party....Pages 98-117 Stalinism and Intellectual Order....Pages 118-134 The Power of the General Secretary of the CPSU....Pages 135-157 Policy towards Dissent since Khrushchev....Pages 158-192 Some Concluding Observations....Pages 193-197 Back Matter....Pages 198-207 Edited By T.h. Rigby, Archie Brown, And Peter Reddaway. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.