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Kanet, Roger E. Clark, Terry Dee 2011-05-07T14:18:49Z 2011-05-07T14:18:49Z 10000-01-01 1992 This thesis proposes a framework for understanding the mechanism used by the ruling elites of the Soviet Union for nearly seventy years to control social involvement in politics and assure the leading role of the Communist Party in the system. The questions to which the model addresses itself are: what was the structure of interaction between state and society in the Soviet Union, how did the state seek to harmonize spontaneous social activity with state goals to attempt to ensure a stable social order, and under what conditions was this not possible. The argument of the thesis is that the mechanism for elite control broke down during the latter years of perestroika, culminating with the August 1991 coup and following which a fundamentally new type of regime was introduced in several of the successor states of the former Soviet Union. The underlying cause for the collapse of the regime was loss of legitimacy coupled with elite fragmentation, making it impossible for forceful reimposition of the old order. The final chapter briefly considers topics for future research with an emphasis on the Slavic and Baltic states. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:18:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9236433.pdf: 12137189 bytes, checksum: efb18615d363faaa2c5d84e704974c7c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:05:19Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:31:17-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9236433 (UMI)AAI9236433 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23563 eng Copyright 1992 Clark, Terry Dee History, European Political Science, General The collapse of the Soviet Union: A study of demokratizatsiia text History, European Political Science, General History, European Political Science, General University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.