Contents

• Introduction: Perspectives on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union / James R. Millar
• 1. Soviet Politicians and Criminal Prosecutions: The Logic of Party Intervention / Peter H. Solomon Jr.
• 2. Politics and Productivity in Soviet Industry: Did the Party Improve Enterprise Performance? / Susan J. Linz
• 3. Manager and Primary Party Organization Secretary: The Distribution of Responsibility within the Soviet Enterprise / Leonid Khotin
• 4. The Struggle for Control over Statistics: The Role of the Central Statistical Administration within the Inclusive Statistical System of the USSR / Stephen D. Shenfield
• 5. The Communist Party and the Economic Bureaucracy in the USSR / Paul R. Gregory
• 6. Public Perceptions and the Dilemmas of Party Reform in the USSR / Donna Bahry and Brian D. Silver
• 7. Ambiguous Mandate: The Impact of Party Controls at the Soviet Grassroots / Donna Bahry and Mark Rykoff
• 8. Transformation and Degeneration: The CPSU under Reform / Mark R. Beissinger