Leadership and Succession in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China

First
Published in 1986 (this is the first edition). The papers in this volume were originally delivered
at a series of seminars held at the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, University of London, between January and May 1984. The
inspiration for the scheme was the Soviet succession struggle of 1982
but further reflection indicated that the problem of elderly
leaderships, and the apparent absence of legitimate succession
mechanisms, applied to nearly all communist systems.