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Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0393005828
The Soviet political mind was a mosaic of ideology and pragmatism.
Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : New York : Praeger [1963]
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : UOM:39015003485557
Author : Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199763290
In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities. Cohen's lucidly written, revisionist analysis reopens an array of major historical questions. As he probes Soviet history, society, and politics, Cohen demonstrates how this country has remained stable during its long journey from revolution to conservatism. It the process, he suggests more enlightened approaches to American/Soviet relations. Based on the author's many years of study and research, including numerous visits to the USSR, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of world affairs today.
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0815709048
Isaiah Berlins response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Never before collected, Berlins writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalins manipulative artificial dialectic; portraits of Osip Mandelshtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more.
Author : John Alexander Armstrong
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0819154059
Using a social science approach, the author presents the historical and ideological foundations of today's Soviet political system and provides a concise but thorough exposition of the Soviet political and legal institutions, including the role of the Communist Party. This fourth edition also addresses economic issues, nationality problems and the interplay of domestic and international forces in Soviet foreign policy. Originally published in 1962 by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164443661
Author : Richard Cornell
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020809524
Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012249069
Author : Robert C. Tucker,American Council of Learned Societies. Planning Group on Comparative Communist Studies
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0765804832
In the years since Stalin's death, his influence upon the historical development of communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. In this landmark volume, leading scholars in the field discuss the impact of Stalinism.
Author : Valery Tishkov
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761951857
Valery Tishkov is a well-known Russian historian and anthropologist, and former Minister of Nationalities in Yeltsin's government. This book draws on his inside knowledge of major events and extensive primary research. Tishkov argues that ethnicity has a multifaceted role: it is the most accessible basis for political mobilization; a means of controlling power and resources in a transforming society; and therapy for the great trauma suffered by individuals and groups under previous regimes. This complexity helps explain the contradictory nature and outcomes of public ethnic policies based on a doctrine of ethno-nationalism.
Author : Attar Chand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015029175885
Author : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780393806
Author : Wladimir Velminski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262035699
How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens. In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of unusual broadcasts. “Relax, let your thoughts wander free...” intoned the host, the physician and clinical psychotherapist Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky. Moscow's Channel One was attempting mass hypnosis over television, a therapeutic session aimed at reassuring citizens panicked over the ongoing political upheaval—and aimed at taking control of their responses to it. Incredibly enough, this last-ditch effort to rally the citizenry was the culmination of decades of official telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and coded messages undertaken to reinforce ideological conformity. In Homo Sovieticus, the art and media scholar Wladimir Velminski explores these scientific and pseudoscientific efforts at mind control. In a fascinating series of anecdotes, Velminski describes such phenomena as the conflation of mental energy and electromagnetism; the investigation of aura fields through the “Aurathron”; a laboratory that practiced mind control methods on dogs; and attempts to calibrate the thought processes of laborers. “Scientific” diagrams from the period accompany the text. In all of the experimental methods for implanting thoughts into a brain, Velminski finds political and metaphorical contaminations. These apparently technological experiments in telepathy and telekinesis were deployed for purely political purposes.
Author : A. B. Kozhevnikov
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 1860944205
World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical success by following the lives and work of Soviet scientists ? including Nobel Prize-winning physicists Kapitza, Landau, and others ? throughout the turmoil of wars, revolutions, and repression that characterized the first half of Russia's twentieth century.The book examines how scientists operated within the Soviet political order, communicated with Stalinist politicians, built a new system of research institutions, and conducted groundbreaking research under extraordinary circumstances. Some of their novel scientific ideas and theories reflected the influence of Soviet ideology and worldview and have since become accepted universally as fundamental concepts of contemporary science. In the process of making sense of the achievements of Soviet science, the book dismantles standard assumptions about the interaction between science, politics, and ideology, as well as many dominant stereotypes ? mostly inherited from the Cold War ? about Soviet history in general. Science and technology were not only granted unprecedented importance in Soviet society, but they also exerted a crucial formative influence on the Soviet political system itself. Unlike most previous studies, Stalin's Great Science recognizes the status of science as an essential element of the Soviet polity and explores the nature of a special relationship between experts (scientists and engineers) and communist politicians that enabled the initial rise of the Soviet state and its mature accomplishments, until the pact eroded in later years, undermining the communist regime from within.
Author : Scott Radnitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197573532
Conspiracy theories are not just outlandish ideas. They can also be political weapons.Conspiracy theories have come to play an increasingly prominent role in political systems around the world. In Revealing Schemes, Scott Radnitz moves beyond psychological explanations for why people believe conspiracy theories to explore the politics surrounding them and places two questions at thecenter of his account: What leads regimes to promote conspiracy claims? And what are their effects? Using a new database of over 1,500 conspiracy claims collected from 12 post-Soviet states - a region of the world where such theories have long thrived-he shows that purveyors of conspiracy tend toenter the fray in moments of uncertainty and chaos. Conspiracy claims flow most freely where there is serious political competition rather than unbridled autocracy; and in response to destabilizing events that challenge a regime's ability to continue ruling. Leaders who anticipate future challengescan disseminate conspiracy narratives proactively as an insurance policy. But if conspiracy becomes overused, it can also backfire. Radnitz shows that individuals who are exposed to a greater amount of intrigue are more cynical and generally more conspiratorial. Yet, conspiracists are alsosuspicious of the motives of authority figures who tout conspiratorial ideas. The upshot is that conspiracism as a political strategy may become less effective over time. At a time of heightened distrust in democratic institutions and rising populism, understanding how conspiracy theories are usedin a region where democracy came late-or never arrived - can be instructive for concerned citizens everywhere.
