Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Methodology and Empirical Theory in Sovietology

by Erik P. Hoffmann

Beset by the USSR's closed nature and the paucity of reliable data, scholars have used unique methods to study a political system they claimed was completely different from any other on earth. However, in the first extended reassessment of Sovietology in over two decades, Frederic Fleron and Erik Hoffmann argue that the isolation of the field from the social sciences has diminished analysts' ability to explain the dramatic changes in their area of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813316863
• ISBN13: 9780813316864
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 387 Pages