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PERESTROIKA-ERA POLITICS

Contemporary Soviet Politics

PERESTROIKA-ERA POLITICS

THE NEW SOVIET LEGISLATURE AND GORBACHEV'S POLITICAL REFORMS
Robert T. Huher arid Donald R. Kelley, eds.

CRACKS IN THE MONOLITH

PARTY POWER IN THE BREZHNEV ERA
James R. Millar, ed.

THE SOVIET CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE POLITICS OF LAW IN THE USSR
Robert Sharlet

EXECUTIVE POWER AND SOVIET POLITICS
Eugene Huskey, editor

Perestroika-Era Politics

The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms

EDITED BY
Robert T. Huber and Donald R. Kelley

First published 1991

by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perestroika-era politics: the new Soviet legislature and Gorbachev's political reforms
Robert T. Huber, Donald R. Kelley, editors
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical referneces
ISBN 0-87332-829-9 (cloth) ISBN 0-87332-830-2 (paper)
1. Soviet Union, Verkhovnyi Sovet
2. Soviet UnionConstitutional history
3. Soviet UnionPolitics and government1985
I. Huber, Robert T., 1955 II. Kelley, Donald R.
JN6556.P47 1991
328.47dc20
91-18983
CIP

ISBN 13: 9780873328302 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780873328296 (hbk)

Contents

Introduction The New Soviet Legislature: How Ideas and Institutions Matter

Robert T. Huber

Robert Sharlet

Viktor Danilenko

Stuart Goldman

Donald R. Kelley

Joel C. Moses

Michael E. Urban

Eugene Huskey

Thomas F. Remington

Robert T. Huber

The rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union makes a volume like this both a daunting challenge and an exciting enterprise. The need to synthesize longerterm systemic trends with dizzying changes in the arrays of political actors and institutions makes social scientific work on the Soviet Union particularly difficult. Nonetheless, researchers both in academia and in government have taken the challenge.

The objective of this volume is to provide a more reliable foundation of knowledge for advanced research on the Soviet political system. The volume will fill a generally recognized gap in teaching materials on the new Soviet political institutions and formations. It will also help take stock of the possible future direction of the current political system for possible application to policy making.

The excitement of undertaking such a project is that the course of perestroika-era politics has made it possible to continue the critical effort to place the Soviet Union in a comparative analytical framework for the study of political systems. This volume is one of the very few that have drawn on the experience of comparative study of political institutions, particularly legislatures, to develop research programs that might enable us to understand better the nature and significance of political events in the Soviet Union. Comparative analysis of the Soviet experience also enriches the existing literature by suggesting anomalies, confirming some established hypotheses, and modifying others.

The pursuit of this endeavor has required many hands. Appreciation must clearly go to my co-editor, Professor Donald Kelley, whose leadership in organizing a panel on emerging political institutions at the 1989 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies provided the inspiration for preparing this volume. Professor Kelley was also quite helpful in reviewing the conceptual framework and coordinating the research activities of individual authors.

I would also like to thank individual contributors to this volume. While preserving their independence in the pursuit of research, they were most cooperative in working out suitable divisions of labor for an immense and deeply interrelated subject matter. Their indulgence in tolerating the frequent reminders of the editors for meeting deadlines is also appreciated.

The scholarly content of the volume, of course, would have remained unfulfilled without the practical and highly effective contributions of Sarah Tar row, Rose London, and Patricia Kolb in preparing the manuscript for publication and suggesting editorial changes along the way. All too often, self-important authors overlook such contributions. The consummate skill of these colleagues, as well as their commitment, good-naturedness, and toleration of idiosyncratic editors and authors was quite frankly indispensable for bringing this volume to publication. All of them are genuine professionals and reflect credit on those who have the opportunity to work with them.

Words of appreciation are also in order for the Social Science Research Council, particularly its president, David Featherman. Professor Featherman's leadership in implementing a new professional development program for Council staff afforded me both the time and the funding to pursue the preparation of this volume in a timely manner. The development of such a program is but one example of Professor Featherman's commitment to advanced research in the social sciences across its many disciplines, areas, and methods of inquiry, and to the training of scholars, both within the Council and outside it, to achieve that purpose in a focused and effective way.

Finally, the support of my wife Lois and my sons Jeremy and Joshua remains a critically sustaining energy for all my professional work. They bear the brunt of many, sometimes conflicting commitments with grace and encouragement. Only they know how much I depend on them.

Robert T. Huber

PERESTROIKA-ERA POLITICS

Introduction

The New Soviet Legislature: How Ideas and Institutions Matter

Robert T. Huber

Social scientists have long disagreed about the role ideas play in politics, particularly in times of transition or crisis. This disagreement has been evident in many cases where the struggle of ideas has clearly produced policy changes, but the role that can be assigned to new ideas as opposed to more settled institutional interests in effecting the changes is difficult to assess.

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