Peter Frank & Ronald J. Hill 
Soviet Communist Party 
Third Edition

The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its place in the Soviet political system. It covers the Party s structures, membership, personnel and functions, and relations with the state institutions, and discusses the Party s role in leading other institutions and the press, and the part it plays in foreign relations. The book concludes with an examination of the CPSU in terms of a number of concepts that have been applied to it as an elite, a class, a totalitarian leader s following .