Titlebook: Soviet Power and the Countryside; Policy Innovation an Neil J. Melvin Book 2003 Neil J. Melvin 2003 russian and post-soviet politics

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The Formation of the Policy Community: Rural Architectsnd variety of participants in the policy process. The growth in participation was not, however, universal and unrestricted. As noted above, as the Soviet leadership began to develop a new and comprehensive policy of rural development; it sought to co-opt the participation of individuals and organisa

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The Disintegration of Policy-making Capacitylthough the September 1968 decree had reflected some of the concern voiced by critics of the programme, overall the decree marked a further empowering of the policy community, finally giving it the green light to tackle full-scale rural modernisation. With the funding necessary for the programme ens

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Explaining Political Transformation in the Soviet Uniont leaders of the Communist Party in the mid-1980s. While the programme was hardly radical in content, it nevertheless contained important new ideas about rural development and signalled a renewed commitment by the Soviet elite to tackling the immense problems that faced agriculture and the rural villages.

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The Formation of the Policy Community: Rural Architectsiet leadership began to develop a new and comprehensive policy of rural development; it sought to co-opt the participation of individuals and organisations that could provide specialised skills and knowledge to assist in policy elaboration and implementation.

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2633-5964 tical dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that th

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Introductionmunities. At the heart of the policy was a programme to urbanise the village. A struggle between village and town thus became a defining element of the final years of the Soviet order – something that was at the core of the Soviet project of modernisation.

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Radical Urbanism Becomes Orthodoxye urban areas of the USSR was adopted as an official policy goal of the Soviet regime. By 1964, the political commitment to develop the rural regions had been accepted at the highest levels, a system to manage rural development had been established and an embryonic rural construction industry was forming.

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The Onset of Rural Transformationill established among the central elite and the conceptual framework of rural transformation largely complete, from the mid-1960s rural settlement planning and construction entered a new stage, a stage in which the fully formed model of rural development was, for the first time, applied to the countryside.