Flawed Succession

This authoritative study examines twentieth-century Russia's four key succession crises: after Stalin's death, throughout Khrushchev's primacy, during the economic and geographic implosion of the USSR, and the end of the Yeltsin presidency. The distinguished contributors to this volume argue that the common denominator throughout has been the absence of a transparent, nonarbitrary, and generally accepted mechanism for the transfer of political power.