The Soviet Prefects: The Local Party Organs in Industrial Decision-making

xiv, 418pp. Grey cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine. Red endpapers. 8vo. Lightly rubbed and rounded spine ends, shelf number on small spine label; light soiling to boards. Text block edges just starting to tan. Lender's stamps and markings on endpapers and copyright page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight volume. This book concentrates primarily on an analysis of the role of the local Party organs in Soviet industrial decision-making, the concluding chapter will explore some implications of this role both for administrative theory and for the theory of political modernization and political development.