Books by Graeme Gill

In this book, Graeme Gill offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. He examines the relationship between institutional structures and the conventions, which are created to shape the activities of individuals and considers centre/periphery relations.

Drawing on research based on access to the recently-opened Soviet archives, this new edition provides a valuable thematic account of the nature of Stalinism.

The author assesses the main theories developed to account for and explain why and how authoritarian regimes give way to democratic ones.

Graeme Gill provides a detailed comparative analysis of the core issues of regime change, the creation of civil society, economic reform and the changing nature of post-communism.