New Factors of Stability in Soviet Collective Leadership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6412490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerome M Gilison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-581 |
| Publication date | 1967-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2009714 |
| OpenAlex | W2025364289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
With the reluctant retirement of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union entered a new phase of collective leadership. Past experience with such periods has led many Western specialists to expect that the collective leadership pattern will lead to the emergence of a single leader, who will hold preponderant power and who will seek to consolidate and strengthen that power, ultimately acquiring something approaching dictatorial authority. The assumptions of this “conventional wisdom” (to borrow a phrase from John Galbraith) are that (i) there is something inherently unstable in a collective leadership pattern, given Soviet conditions; (2) the personal ambitions and power drive of Soviet leaders prevent, in the long run, their acceptance of a situation of shared power; and (3) historical evidence of past breakdowns of collective leadership is applicable to present conditions
Collective behavior · Collective leadership · Economic system · Economics · Law and economics · Phase (matter · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Soviet union · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 1980 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |