Executive Power and Soviet Politics Evren M. Ozbayoglu Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts

Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts has three main goals

in some cases to prevent democratic backsliding

Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number of

Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants

Executive Power and Soviet Politics Evren M. Ozbayoglu Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate ConflictsEver since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive prerogative are unresolved. This volume, brings together