The Communist Party in post-Soviet Russia
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is Russia's largest and most influential party. March explores the origin and development of this political phenomenon in the context of post-Soviet politics and in comparison to other Eastern European countries with left-wing pasts.
Print Book, English, 2002
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002
288 p. ; 22 cm.
9780719060434, 9780719060441, 0719060435, 0719060443
1170428831
1. The CPRF's emergence as the dominant successor party 2. A broad church: the CPRF's ideological currents 3. Programmatic evolution 4. Evaluating the CPRF's ideology: backwards to socialism? 5. Organisational development and membership 6. Electoral ascent 1993-96 7. Electoral decline 1996-2001? 8. The CPRF and the political system Conclusion