After The Ussr

Author : Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0299148947

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After the USSR by Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov Pdf

Khazanov's astute assessments of ethnic and political strife in Russia, in Chechnia, in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, among the Meskhetian Turks, and among the Yakut of Eastern Siberia illuminate the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structures, and political process in the waning days of the USSR and in the new independent states. Exploring the Soviet nationality policy and its failure to satisfy national aspirations, Khazanov demonstrates the fatal flaws of totalitarian rule and the impossibility of reforming it. Khazanov cautions that the liberal democratic direction of current transformations in the former Soviet Union should not be taken for granted. For most of the independent states, he points out, departing from totalitarianism requires creation of a civil society for the first time in their history. The state's partial retreat from the public sphere leaves a dangerous institutional vacuum, in which nationalism is emerging as the dominant ideology. He warns that this new, post-totalitarian society is still a far cry from a genuine liberal democracy and, despite its inherent instability, may turn out to be a long-lasting phenomenon.

Author : Tobias Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102880

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Soviet Internationalism after Stalin by Tobias Rupprecht Pdf

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Author : Savanna Gray
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1096261626

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Broken Empire by Savanna Gray Pdf

I knew loving Sienna Hale would cost me.I knew claiming her would destroy me.But I suffered the consequences.I risked it all for my raven.I paid the price to save her.And now, the man who caged her will fall.Brick by brick I'll rip his empire to shreds.Until there's nothing left.Marco and Sienna's story concludes in this fast-paced dark romantic suspense.

Author : Robert Jervis,Seweryn Bialer
Publisher : Camera Obscura
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020803477

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Soviet-American Relations After the Cold War by Robert Jervis,Seweryn Bialer Pdf

This important collection of essays explores the terrain of possible Soviet-American relations in the next decade. Starting from the premise that glasnost and perestroika will not be reversed, this expert group of contributors provides a wide-ranging and far-reaching analysis of Soviet-U.S. relations crucial to any current discussion of the topic. Moving beyond the boundaries of traditional studies of international relations, the contributors here focus on such topics as public opinion and the relationship of domestic policy to foreign policy. Other areas of consideration include the Soviet-U.S. relationship and the Third World and East Asia, the role of the United Nations in Soviet and American policy in the 1990s, international environmental protection, and the Soviet opening to nonprovocative defense. A final section concludes with policy choices for the future regarding security strategies and prospects for peace. Contributors. Seweryn Bialer, Robert Dallek, Charles Gati, Toby Trister Gati, Colin S. Gray, Ole R. Holsti, Robert Jervis, Alexander J. Motyl, John Mueller, Eric A. Nordlinger, George H. Quester, Harold H. Sanders, Glenn E. Schweitzer, Jack Snyder, Donald S. Zagoria, William Zimmerman

Author : Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134376841

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The Piratization of Russia by Marshall I. Goldman Pdf

In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.

Author : Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521111317

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Red Nations by Jeremy Smith Pdf

This book surveys the experiences of non-Russian USSR citizens both during and following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Author : Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789522227522

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Fashion Meets Socialism by Jukka Gronow,Sergey Zhuravlev Pdf

This book presents, above all, a study of the establishment and development of the Soviet organization and system of fashion industry and design as it gradually evolved in the years after the Second World War in the Soviet Union, which was, in the understanding of its leaders, reaching the mature or last stage of socialism when the country was firmly set on the straight trajectory to its final goal, Communism. What was typical of this complex and extensive system of fashion was that it was always loyally subservient to the principles of the planned socialist economy. This did not by any means indicate that everything the designers and other fashion professionals did was dictated entirely from above by the central planning agencies. Neither did it mean that their professional judgment would have been only secondary to ideological and political standards set by the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, as our study shows, the Soviet fashion professionals had a lot of autonomy. They were eager and willing to exercise their own judgment in matters of taste and to set the agenda of beauty and style for Soviet citizens. The present book is the first comprehensive and systematic history of the development of fashion and fashion institutions in the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Our study makes use of rich empirical and historical material that has been made available for the first time for scientific analysis and discussion. The main sources for our study came from the state, party and departmental archives of the former Soviet Union. We also make extensive use of oral history and the writings published in Soviet popular and professional press.

Author : Galina Vasilevna Starovotova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : IND:30000050449705

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Sovereignty After Empire by Galina Vasilevna Starovotova Pdf

Author : Gerd Ludwig,Fen Montaigne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Post-communism
ISBN : UCSC:32106016292291

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Broken Empire by Gerd Ludwig,Fen Montaigne Pdf

Ten volatile years after the fall of the Soviet Union, an award-winning photographer teams ups with a world-renowned journalist to complete an unforgettable visual and textural record of Russia's ambivalent rebirth. 120 color photos.

Author : Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1906497273

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Back in the USSR by Boris Kagarlitsky Pdf

Boris Kagarlitsky reflects on what happened in Russia after the collapse of the old regime and how this has affected social and cultural life, as well as the everyday lives of ordinary people.

Author : Octavian Esanu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786155225116

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Transition in Post-Soviet Art by Octavian Esanu Pdf

"With an abridged translation of the Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism."

Author : Vladislav M. Zubok
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262445

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Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok Pdf

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.

Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609092337

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State of Madness by Rebecca Reich Pdf

What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Author : Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838215389

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Post-Soviet Secessionism by Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko Pdf

The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people. The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states? The contributors are Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Bruno Coppieters, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov, and Gwendolyn Sasse.

Author : Anders Aslund,Martha Brill Olcott
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870033278

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Russia After Communism by Anders Aslund,Martha Brill Olcott Pdf

Five years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a new political and economic system has evolved in Russia. Russia After Communism provides an overall assessment of what has been accomplished and what has failed to date, and where Russia is heading. In a unique collaborative effort, the book features chapters on major issues written by pairs of leading Russian and American scholars. Michael McFaul and Nikolai Petrov analyze the Russian elections since 1989 and assess voting behavior. Scott Bruckner and Lilia Shevtsova address the question of whether Russia has become a stable pluralist society. Martha Brill Olcott and Valery Tishkov focus on the nature of the Russian nation as well as regional relations. Russia has become a market economy, but what kind of capitalism is being formed? Anders Aslund and Mikhail Dmitriev examine the continuing challenge of economic reform. Sherman Garnett and Dmitri Trenin analyze Russia's relations with its nearest neighbor. Stephen Sestanovich examines Russia's place in the world.