Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political 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 the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.
Robbed of her humanity KC Barnes lumbers through the web of lies that has become her life, desperately seeking an end to an existence she never wanted. Hunted by the only thing more dangerous than herself, KC is forced to take refuge at a remote Montana ranch where an unspoken alliance becomes inexplicably forged between her and Gabe Morgan, a man with an equally tortured past. The unholy bond that evolves incites an obsessive compulsion to protect that is so confoundingly fierce it risks destroying Gabe's family along with themselves.
Laura Melvin, a retired circuit judge from Florida, tells how after a career that included imposing two death sentences, she found reflecting on what justice really means. She began both a spiritual and physical journey across America that led her to Quakerism and to ponder deeply on the broken American justice system.
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