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3. Poverty and wealth
Stephen Lovell
in The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
‘Poverty and wealth’ considers the economic experience and the existence of inequality in the Soviet Union. The Soviet system had three main economic principles: egalitarianism, ...
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4. Elite and masses
Stephen Lovell
in The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
‘Elite and masses’ focuses on the contradictions of Soviet society. The problem for the Bolshevik party was how a centralized, minority party could claim leadership of the masses. In the ...
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6. The new administrative age
Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy
in Public Administration: A Very Short Introduction
Many New Public Management approaches failed to address deeper systemic issues underlying the actual causes of poor performance. As a result, a variety of alternative methods and approaches ...
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The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Lovell
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into the society and culture of the time. This VSI takes a thematic approach to the ...
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4. The Economic System of Communism
Leslie Holmes
in Communism: A Very Short Introduction
‘The economic system of communism’ explains the differences between the economies of Western systems and those of Communist ones. All western systems were (and remain) basically capitalist, ...
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Communism: A Very Short Introduction
Leslie Holmes
Communism: A Very Short Introduction highlights the inner dynamics, crises, and demise of communism as a global system, explaining the theory behind its ideology, and examining ...
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2. A Brief History of Communism in Power
Leslie Holmes
in Communism: A Very Short Introduction
‘A brief history of communism in power’ describes how, by the 1970s, more than a third of the world's population lived in a Communist system. By the end of the 1940s, the number of states ...
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