Is Russia Reformable

Author : Robert V. Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429718656

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Is Russia Reformable? by Robert V. Daniels Pdf

History is always full of surprises as it unfolds before us. The Soviet Union, for decades a seemingly frozen monolith of totalitarian rigidity and paranoid bellicosity, suddenly finds itself under a leader in the person of Mikhail Gorbachev who calls for "radical restructuring," openness," and even a "revolution." Outsiders justly wonder if this m

Author : Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231520423

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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives by Stephen F. Cohen Pdf

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows that their defeated policies were viable alternatives and that their tragic personal fates shaped the Soviet Union and Russia today. Cohen's ramifying arguments include that Stalinism was not the predetermined outcome of the Communist Revolution; that the Soviet Union was reformable and its breakup avoidable; and that the opportunity for a real post-Cold War relationship with Russia was squandered in Washington, not in Moscow. This is revisionist history at its best, compelling readers to rethink fateful events of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and the possibilities ahead. In his new epilogue, Cohen expands his analysis of U.S. policy toward post-Soviet Russia, tracing its development in the Clinton and Obama administrations and pointing to its initiation of a "new Cold War" that, he implies, has led to a fateful confrontation over Ukraine.

Author : Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521597323

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Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova by Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott Pdf

Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of postcommunist politics, this 1997 book brings together distinguished specialists on the former communist countries of Russia and the Western Newly Independent States. Chapters on Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, plus three chapters on Russia's regional politics, its political parties, and the overall process of democratization, provide an in-depth analysis of the uneven pattern of political change in these four countries. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott contribute theoretical and comparative chapters on postcommunist political development across the region. This book will provide students and scholars with detailed analysis by leading authorities, plus research data on political and economic developments in each country.

Author : Ghoncheh Tazmini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857721440

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Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran by Ghoncheh Tazmini Pdf

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age. Here, Ghoncheh Tazmini provides an unprecedented comparative study of these two major revolutions of the twentieth century, which although removed from each other both spatially and temporally, have striking similarities. Examining the roots, events and impact of these two defining upheavals, Tazmini analyses how they resemble each other, stressing the continuity of the dilemma of modernisation for the Romanov, Pahlavi, Communist and Islamist rulers alike. This book is a significant contribution to both historical and contemporary debates concerning Russian and Iranian politics, and to the discourse on the origins and consequences of modernisation and revolution themselves.

Author : Robert Vincent Daniels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0847687090

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Russia's Transformation by Robert Vincent Daniels Pdf

An astute observer of the Soviet Union, Bill Daniels collects here his observations of political change in the USSR over a twenty-five-year period. Complete with a new introduction, conclusion and explanatory notes, these essays offer a moment-by-moment picture of the decline and fall of the Communist state. Beginning with the era of impasse from Brezhnev to Chernenko, Daniels then traces the beginnings of reform initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, the crisis and failure of perestroika, and the tribulations of Boris Yeltsin's government. Capturing the weaknesses of past and present regimes, while illustrating the difficulties of anticipating the course of events in Russia, Daniels's commentaries will have a central place in the ongoing debate about the failure of Western scholarship to predict the Soviet collapse and its aftermath. Specialists, students, and general readers alike will find his work a stimulating point of departure for considering the Soviet and post-Soviet paradox.

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Abbott Gleason
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118730003

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A Companion to Russian History by Abbott Gleason Pdf

This companion comprises 28 essays by international scholars offering an analytical overview of the development of Russian history from the earliest Slavs through to the present day. Includes essays by both prominent and emerging scholars from Russia, Great Britain, the US, and Canada Analyzes the entire sweep of Russian history from debates over how to identify the earliest Slavs, through the Yeltsin Era, and future prospects for post-Soviet Russia Offers an extensive review of the medieval period, religion, culture, and the experiences of ordinary people Offers a balanced review of both traditional and cutting-edge topics, demonstrating the range and dynamism of the field

Author : Theodore Taranovski,Peggy McInerny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521451779

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Reform in Modern Russian History by Theodore Taranovski,Peggy McInerny Pdf

This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important methodological and historiographic questions regarding the content, scope, and significance of various reform efforts, ranging from the Great Reforms of tsar Alexander II to attempts to salvage the Soviet system undertaken by Khrushchev and Gorbachev. One of the key issues raised is whether various attempts to modernise the political and social system were a series of cyclical failures or demonstrate a pattern of progressive development.Reform in Modern Russian History favours the second mode of interpretation and provides an excellent background for all who want to understand the Gorbachev era and contemporary Russian politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Military intelligence
ISBN : UVA:X002020044

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Military Intelligence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred J. Rieber,Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781315489438

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Perestroika at the Crossroads by Alfred J. Rieber,Alvin Z. Rubinstein Pdf

The contributors to this volume have undertaken an assessment of the Soviet Union as it enters the last decade of the 20th century. Organized to cover each major area of policy initiative (or response), the collection surveys the Gorbachev reform agenda and its successes and failures to date in various fields, including culture, economics, ideology, law, politics, federalism and the nationality problem, and foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, Eastern Europe and the Third World.

Author : James DeFronzo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974359

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Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements by James DeFronzo Pdf

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This Fifth Edition is revised and updated with a new chapter on the Arab Revolution from its beginning in December 2010 to the present. In this widely used text, students can trace the historical development of eleven revolutions using a five-factor analytical framework. Author James DeFronzo clearly explains all relevant concepts and events, the roles of key leaders, and the interrelation of each revolutionary movement with international economic and political developments and conflicts, including World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. Student resources include multiple orienting maps, summary and analysis sections, suggested readings, chronologies, and documentary resources.

Author : Stefano Bianchini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317566021

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Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity, 1800-2000 by Stefano Bianchini Pdf

This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans over two centuries from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Gorbachev administration. Unlike other books on the subject which view modernity based on the idea of Western European supremacy, this book outlines the various different pathways of development, and of growing industrialisation, urbanisation and secularisation which took place across the region. It provides rich insights on the complex networks whereby very varied ideas, aspirations and policies interacted to bring about a varied pattern of progress, and of integration and isolation, with different areas moving in different ways and at different paces. Overall the book presents something very different from the traditional picture of the" two Europes". Particular examples covered include agrarian reform movements, in various phases, different models of socialism, and different models of socialist reform.

Author : Robert Sharlet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315486475

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Soviet Constitutional Crisis by Robert Sharlet Pdf

Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev years, Robert Sharlet traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the erstwhile USSR. Sharlet, a noted authority on Soviet law and constitutional development, demonstrates the gradual transformation of law from an instrument of Communist Party rule into the new "rules of the game" for nonauthoritarian political development. In effect, he argues, one of Gorbachev's most durable achievements may be his redefinition of Soviet politics into a legal idiom along with his relocation of policymaking from behind the closed doors of Party conclaves into the more open, emergent arena of constitutional government. In analyzing the politics of law from the Brezhnev era to the rise of Yeltsin, the author takes account of the "war of laws", the symbolic uses of the Soviet constitution, and even the fact that the leaders of the failed coup attempted to justify their seizure of power on constitutional grounds. Constitutionalism has sufficiently suffused Soviet public life, the book concludes, that most of the sovereign republics as successors to the former USSR, have begun designing their futures - to varying degrees - in constitutional forms.

Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307372246

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The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown Pdf

Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last few decades. In this illuminating book, based on forty years of study and a wealth of new sources, Archie Brown provides a comprehensive history as well as an original and highly readable analysis of an ideology that has shaped the world and still rules over a fifth of humanity. A compelling new work from an internationally renowned specialist, The Rise and Fall of Communism promises to be the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times.

Author : Michael Confino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845459932

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Russia Before The 'Radiant Future' by Michael Confino Pdf

One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. Thematically, they cover major subjects in Imperial Russian history and in historical writing, such as ideas and their role in historical change; the intelligentsia, the nobility, and peasant society; and historiography. The twelve essays raise cardinal questions about current scholarship on Russian history before the upheavals of 1917 and offer original interpretations that are of interest to the educated layman as well as the professional historian.