Theory of State, Cybernetics and Political Science in the Soviet Union

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The Soviet Union

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ngoc Son Bui
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
Legal Forms

This book seeks to fill the academic gap in the existing literature on comparative constitutional law by examining how and why five current socialist countries (China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam) have changed their constitutions after the fall of the Soviet Union. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach which integrates comparative constitutional law with social sciences (particularly political science and sociology), this book explores and explains: the progressive function; institutional and socio-economic causes; legal forms, processes, and powers; and five variations (universal, integration, reservation, exceptional, and personal) of socialist constitutional change. It uses qualitative methodology, including the support of fieldwork. It contributes to a better understanding of dynamic socioeconomic, legal, and constitutional change in socialist countries and comparative constitutional law and theory, generally.

Political Science in the USSR: ‘To Be, Or Not To Be” Some Reflections on the Implications of a Recent Soviet Critique of American Political Science

1971 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf H. W. Theen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
The West ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Official Recognition ◽  
Soviet Study

The emergence or reemergence of academic disciplines in the Soviet Union has frequently been signalled or accompanied by the publication of comprehensive critical studies of their “bourgeois” counterparts in the West. Thus, for example, Soviet empirical research in sociology and the subsequent tentative and limited official recognition of sociology as an academic discipline were preceded by the appearance of a number of monographs devoted to a critique of Western sociology. Perhaps it is against this background and from this perspective that one must interpret the publication, in 1969, of the first major Soviet study and critique of American political science.

Communist China’s Attitude Toward International Law

1966 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hungdah Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Socialist Country ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Communist Movement ◽  
Communist China

Despite the growing interest in Chinese studies in this country, little, if any, attention has been paid to the study of Communist China’s view of international law. Some persons may feel that Communist China, as a Socialist country, cannot do other than to adhere to the Soviet concept of international law or that of Socialist countries in general. There may be some truth in this view, but it does not disclose the whole picture. Communist China does accept many principles of international law proclaimed or applied by the Soviet Union or by Soviet jurists, but in view of the growing differences of views between the two countries in handling many international problems and in conducting the international Communist movement, it is reasonable to infer that Communist China may have developed different views toward international law in some aspects. In this connection, it may be noted tha Wu Tê-feng, a prominent jurist in Communist China and President of the China Political Science and Law Association, not long ago severely criticized the Soviet concept of international law in a report delivered on October 8, 1964, to the general meeting of the Association.

Stateness

2019 ◽  
pp. 656-660
Author(s):  
Timm Beichelt
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Weak State ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Look Back ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Transition Studies

The chapter sketches the history of concepts of stateness in political science and transition studies from Dankwart Rustow to the seminal works of Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan. After discussing conceptual and typological aspects, the text deals with pertinent cases where stateness played a decisive role in post-socialist transition, in particular on the territory of the successor states of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Different types of countries have evolved: states that had been dissolved in the 1940s like the Baltic states, cases with weak state traditions like Moldova or Montenegro, countries that look back to a long tradition as a cultural nation like Georgia, and the previously dominating titular nations like Russia or Serbia. Because of these different configurations, problems of stateness arise in different forms during transition.

scholarly journals Regime and state breakdown: dissolution of the Soviet Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
Fei Haiting
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
State Breakdown

The mechanism of causality between the breakdown of political regime and the disintegration of a state is an important topic in political science. The dissolution of the Soviet Union is a typical example. The aim of perestroika was the transformation of the political regime by renewing the top elite and inclusion of mass groups in the system of government. The initiators of the reform planned to achieve their goals through the general reconstruction of relations between the CPSU and the Soviet state, the redistribution of power from the party elite to the Soviet one concentrated in the Councils of People’s Deputies at various levels. In practice, the implementation of two reforms at once (distancing the party from the authorities and optimizing governance) led to the split of the entire political elite. The struggle of opposing elite groups for dominance led to the paralysis of state power, the loss of control over what was happening in the country. As a result, the interests of elite groups began to prevail over the national interests and ultimately led to the destruction of the state. Thus the authorsubstantiates the thesis that the destabilization of a regime as a result of the inter-elite struggle leads to the destruction of a state. The problem of elite renewal and consolidation and the transfer powers from the party elite to the state one becomes important.

The great blockade of Lithuania: Evaluating sanction theory with a case study of Soviet sanctions to prevent Lithuanian independence

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lektzian ◽  
Rimvydas Ragauskas
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
The Soviet Union

Previous work in political science has looked to dyadic, international, and domestic factors in senders and targets of sanctions for explanations of why they sometimes succeed and frequently fail. In this paper, we present a case study of the sanctions imposed by the Soviet Union over Lithuania’s declaration of independence in 1990. We examine the dyadic, international, and domestic factors that influenced the outcome of the sanctions and connect them to existing theoretical and empirical work in the literature. While dyadic and international factors played important roles, we find the strongest evidence for the role of domestic political factors in the Soviet Union and Lithuania in determining the outcome of the dispute.

Ultra-Nationalists in Russia at the Onset of Putin's Rule

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Verkhovsky
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Near Future

Ten years ago, the destruction of totalitarian Soviet society led many to fear that in a country with little experience of democracy, another totalitarian regime would supersede the old one. But which regime, and in what form? The national conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of the Soviet Union suggested a feasible answer right away, namely, a national dictatorship of the fascist sort, composed of nationalistic ideology and a totalitarian social structure. No such dictatorship has occurred in contemporary Russia and none is anticipated in the near future. The “Weimar Russia” scenario, which the political science expert Alexander Ianov developed in such great detail, has not materialized.

State Personnel Policy in the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia: Political and Philosophical Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Федорченко ◽  
Sergey Fedorchenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
Soviet Russia

The book compares the state personnel policy of the USSR and post-Soviet Russia, taking into account ideological, economic and administrative metamorphosis. The work is focused on specialists in the field of theoretical political science, political philosophy, as well as students and graduate students. The cross-cutting idea of the book is to address the problem of hidden, informal personnel transformations. To analyze this phenomenon, the axiological methodology of the Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci was used.

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