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The Effects of Leadership Succession in the Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Valerie Bunce  and
Philip G. Roeder
Valerie Bunce
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Philip G. Roeder
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Abstract

What happens when there is a change in leadership in the Soviet Union? Does the period of leadership succession present unusual opportunities for domestic policy concerns to be vented? Or, are major issues on the Soviet domestic policy agenda addressed mainly after a succession of leadership is completed? Answers to such questions have a bearing on how the Soviet elite is replenished, and more generally help to improve understanding of Soviet politics. Two specialists on Soviet and East European politics, Valerie Bunce and Philip Roeder, have been drawn to different conclusions about these issues.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 80 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 215 - 224
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1986

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