T. H. Rigby

The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71

(1972). The Soviet politburo: A comparative profile 1951–71. Soviet Studies: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3-23.

The Soviet government since Khrushchev

In 1965 Khrushchevs successors reversed most of his innovations in the structure of the Council of Ministers. Since then turnover in its membership has been very low, but has lately accelerated owing to age‐related deaths and retirements and other places have been created to head new agencies, so that it is again becoming an important arena for competition for high office. New government members are of two career types: “career specialists”, who have worked mainly in the field concerned, if not the particular ministry, and “party generalists”, who have risen mainly through the regional party machine. Some expansion of the latter at the expense of the former is identified, and the distribution of the two types in various policy areas is examined. The 1965 changes sharply reduced party tutelage over the government machine, but various internal and international factors have since led to a progressive reversal of this, and the channels through which this has been pursued are considered. Next, recent and pos...

Books: Notes & reviews

Australian T. Brennan, New Community, Problems and Policies, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1973, pp. 353,

A behavioural symposium

3.95. J. E. Richardson, Patterns of Australian Federalism, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Research Monograph No. 1, ANU, Canberra, 1973, pp. 142 + x,

Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR

4.00. Australian Women in Governments Past and Present, revised as of July, 1973, pp. 15. Survey of Women in Local Government in Australia, 3rd edn, September, 1973, pp. 60. Both compiled by A. Viola Smith, 6 Baden Road, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089. The Government Law Newsletter (the Newsletter of the Government Law Interest Group of the Australasian Universities Law Schools Association), No. 1, August, 1970; from No. 2, March, 1972, issued twice a year. Editor: Stan Hotop, University of Sydney Law School, 173–5 Phillip St, Sydney, NSW 2000. Free. Australian Law Librarians’ Group Newsletter, No. 1, December, 1973. Six times a year. Editor: Robert Watt, Law Reform Commission, Box 6, GPO, Sydney, NSW 2001. Free. Non‐Australian Jeffrey L. Pres...

The Soviet leadership: Towards a self‐stabilizing oligarchy?

Carl Beck, Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Milton Lodge, Derek J. Waller, William A. Welsh, M. George Zaninovich, Comparative Communist Political Leadership. New York: David McKay Co., 1973. xi + 319 pp.

Early provincial cliques and the rise of Stalin

12.50.

Leadership selection and patron-client relations in the USSR and Yugoslavia

5.95 (paperback).