The Soviet electoral system has traditionally been a highly centralized one in which no choice of candidate has been permitted. Proposals for reform, following Gorbachev's speech to the twenty‐seventh party congress in 1986, suggested at least a limited experiment with a choice of candidates in some constituencies, and the local elections of July 1987 duly…
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Journal of Communist Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering Eastern European Communism and Reforms, Soviet and Russian History, Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics.
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago, T&F) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Journal of Communist Studies 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Eastern European Communism and Reforms Soviet and Russian History Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics Communism, Protests, Social Movements Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies |
| ISSN | 0268-4535 |
| h-index | 16 |
| i10-index | 40 |
| Total citations | 1,306 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Leeds |
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Presidencies in Eastern Europe and the successor states of the Soviet Union are a potential threat to stability: on the one hand they can be used in such a way as to increase conflict between the executive and legislative functions of government; on the other, they provide a possible means for the reestablishment of outright…
Annotated translation (with introduction and commentary) of Mao Zedong's three speeches at the Moscow Meeting of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties in November 1957.
The political systems of East Central Europe are still subject to the flux arising from the fall of the communist regimes. It is taking time for clear constituencies to emerge with coherent leaderships in a stable network of autonomous political activity. But certain forms of organization dating from the gestation period have been influential. First,…