Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR [antikvár]

Preface to the 1983 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 of broad 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 of the Council of Ministers) and in January 1982 of M. A. Suslov-and 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. 1982 T.H.R. A.H.B. P.B.R.