The Kgb Russian Academic Imperialism Ukraine And Western Academia 1946 2024

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666943689

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The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946–2024 by Sergei I. Zhuk Pdf

The KGB, Russian Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946-2024 is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Using recently opened archival KGB and US intelligence documents, memoirs, and personal interviews with former KGB officers in post-Soviet Ukraine, this book analyzes the Soviet strategy of "using their enemies" for promoting their own political interests, especially directed at the problems of Ukrainian nationalism and independence. This volume investigates KGB operations establishing a foothold within the American Slavic studies community during the Cold War. The KGB, and their current successors the Russian FSB, use Russian emigrants and academics to promote pro-Kremlin and pro-Putin myths within North American research institutes. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.

Author : Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498551250

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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR by Sergei I. Zhuk Pdf

This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.

Author : Veljko Vujačić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107074088

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Nationalism, Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia by Veljko Vujačić Pdf

This book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.

Author : Douglas Eugene Selvage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : IND:30000062166917

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The Warsaw Pact and Nuclear Nonproliferation, 1963-1965 by Douglas Eugene Selvage Pdf

Author : Stanislav Byshok,Alexey Kochetkov,Anna E. Nikifirova,Alexei Semenov
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1500555487

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Neonazis & Euromaidan by Stanislav Byshok,Alexey Kochetkov,Anna E. Nikifirova,Alexei Semenov Pdf

The book describes the development of Ukraine's nationalist groups since 1991 until present day. It focuses on the history of the parliamentary right-wing radical Svoboda party and the nonparliamentary Right Sector movement. The authors study the ideology, psychology and methods of political struggle of these structures. The experts seek to answer the question: how did the radical neo-Nazi groups manage to become the key driving force behind the Ukrainian revolution?

Author : Albrecht Rothacher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030740771

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Putinomics by Albrecht Rothacher Pdf

This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers profound insights into Putin’s rule and the power mechanics of the state-dominated management of the Russian economy. It identifies and assesses the lack of rule of law, together with an arbitrary and often corrupt administration that systematically discourages entrepreneurship and the emergence of an independent middle class. Furthermore, the book discusses Russia’s budgetary policy, its dependence on the export of natural resources, state-owned enterprises and their privileges, and Russia’s external trade. This hard-hitting, substantial analysis debunks the myth of Russia’s economic might and is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the economic realities of the Eurasian continent, or considering doing business with Russia.

Author : Andrzej Paczkowski,Malcolm Byrne,Gregory F. Domber,Magdalena Klotzbach
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9637326960

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From Solidarity to Martial Law by Andrzej Paczkowski,Malcolm Byrne,Gregory F. Domber,Magdalena Klotzbach Pdf

Presents 95 documents on the months between Au. 1980 when Solidarity was founded and Dec. 1981 when Polish authorities declared martial law and crushed the opposition movement.

Author : Alicja Curanović
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136478642

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The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy by Alicja Curanović Pdf

This book examines how religion interacts with Russian foreign policy, arguing that religion is an important and neglected factor in shaping Russia’s outlook towards international relations. It surveys the importance of religion for social life in Russia, both historically and at present, and considers a wide range of Russian attitudes which are affected by religion – such as Russian nationalism, notions of Slavic solidarity, the divine mission of Russian Orthodox civilisation, Russian imperialism, Russia’s special approach towards Islam. The book discusses how religious organizations, especially the Russian Orthodox Church, operate in international relations, pursuing their own interests and those of the Russian state; explores how religious ideas and culture linked to religion impinge on Russian attitudes and identity, and thereby affect policy; and demonstrates how policy influenced by religion impacts on Russian foreign policy in practice in a wide range of examples, including Russia’s relations with other orthodox countries, non-orthodox Western countries, Muslim countries, Israel and the Vatican.

Author : Norman Naimark,Silvio Pons,Sophie Quinn-Judge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107133548

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The Cambridge History of Communism by Norman Naimark,Silvio Pons,Sophie Quinn-Judge Pdf

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.

Author : Ludomir R Lozny
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319451084

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Archaeology of the Communist Era by Ludomir R Lozny Pdf

This book contributes to better recognition and comprehension of the interconnection between archaeology and political pressure, especially imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes. It explains why, under such political conditions, some archaeological reasoning and practices were resilient, while new ideas leisurely penetrated the local scenes. It attempts to critically evaluate the political context and its impact on archaeology during the communist era world wide and contributes to better perception of the relationship between science and politics in general. This book analyzes the pressures inflicted on archaeologists by the overwhelmingly potent political environment, which stimulates archaeological thought and controls the conditions for professional engagement. Included are discussions about the perception of archaeology and its findings by the public. ​

Author : Victoria Smolkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691197234

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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by Victoria Smolkin Pdf

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.

Author : Russ Bellant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015001096248

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Old Nazis, the New Right and the Reagan Administration by Russ Bellant Pdf

Author : Alexei Yurchak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400849109

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More by Alexei Yurchak Pdf

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.

Author : Anthony H. Birch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134589517

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Concepts and Theories of Modern Democracy by Anthony H. Birch Pdf

The first aim of this text book is to define and examine the principle concepts that are employed when people write or argue about modern democratic politics, to discuss the implications of using the concepts in this way or that, and to examine the normative theories associated with the concepts. A second purpose is to summarise methods of analysis used by political scientists and to discuss the controversies that have arisen about these methods, with particular reference to attempts to create a science of politics.

Author : Hannes Swoboda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9282326276

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Politics of the Past by Hannes Swoboda Pdf