Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms
In: Contemporary Soviet - Post Soviet Politics
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction The New Soviet Legislature: How Ideas and Institutions Matter -- The New Legal Framework -- 2 The Path of Constitutional Reform in the USSR -- 3 Electoral Reform -- 4 The New Soviet Legislative Branch -- The Formation of New Parties and Political Groupings -- 5 Gorbachev's Reforms and the Factionalization of Soviet Politics: Can the New System Cope with Pluralism? -- 6 The Challenge to Soviet Democracy from the Political Right -- 7 Party Formation and Deformation on Russia's Democratic Left