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Author: John Tichotsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1134413939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study looks at the reform process in Sakha and at a one hundred year history of economic development. The research revealed that Sakha's progress has always been determined by the export of key resources.
Author: Alya Guseva
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0804798214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInto the Red explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007. In her analysis, Alya Guseva locates the dynamics of market building in the social structure, specifically the creative use of social networks. Until now, network scholars have overlooked the role that networks play in facilitating exchange in mass markets because they have exclusively focused on firm-to-firm or person-to-person ties. Into the Red demonstrates how networks that combine individuals and organizations help to build markets for mass consumption. The book is situated on the cutting edge of emerging interdisciplinary research, linking multiple layers of analysis with institutional evolution. Using an intricate framework, Guseva chronicles both the creation of a credit card market and the making of a mass consumer. These processes are placed in the context of the ongoing restructuring in postcommunist Russia and the expansion of Western markets and ideologies through the rest of the world.
Author: Dr. Mark O'Doherty
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-06-02
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1365935329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian security forces have arrested more than 1,000 demonstrators in mid-2019; in ongoing rallies against restrictions affecting local elections. About 60,000 people gathered on Sakharov Avenue in the dead heat of August, human rights activists protesting despite the absence of prominent opposition leaders, nearly of all whom have been jailed after previous protests. The turnout was dampened neither by police brutality shown in July/August 2019 - when thousands were arrested - nor by the Moscow authorities' efforts to keep people away through official "storm warnings" and hastily organized music festivals. Hence this book addresses political instability and civil unrest in Russia; and how important conflict resolution, mediation, international cooperation - and emotional intelligence! - are in today's Russia. Social challenges - such as abuse of power and social inequality are also explored in this evidence-based study - so that democracy and human dignity can finally be manifested for all in Mother Russia!
Author: Peter Reddaway
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780742526464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho rules Russia? This question is generated by President Vladimir Putin's most ambitious reform program to date--his attempt since 2000 to reshape the Russian federation, centralize much of the power lost by the Kremlin to the eighty-nine regional governors during the 1990s, and strengthen his weak grip on Russia's institutions and political elite. In The Dynamics of Russian Politics Russian and Western authors from the fields of political science, economics, ethnology, law, and journalism examine the reform's impact on key areas of Russian life, including big business, law enforcement, corruption, political party development, health care, local government, small business, and ethnic relations. Volume I presents the historical context and an overview of the reforms, then tracks how Putin's plans were implemented and resisted across each of the seven new federal okrugs, or megaregions, into which he divided Russia. In particular, the authors analyze the goals and contrasting political styles of his seven commissars and how their often-concealed struggles with the more independent and determined governors played out. Volume II examines the impact of these reforms on Russia's main political institutions; the increasingly assertive business community; and the defense, police, and security ministries. It also analyzes how the reforms have affected such key policy areas as local government, health care, political party development, the battle against corruption, small business, ethnic relations, and the ongoing Chechen war. Together, the two volumes simultaneously reveal that Putin's successes have been much more limited and ambiguous than is widely believed in the West while offering detailed and nuanced answers to the difficult but crucial question: Who rules Russia?
Author: Paul Klebnikov
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780156013307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who financed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin and became on of his key advisors.
Author: Jeremy Lester
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995-11-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781859840399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study offers an account of political life in Russia since the fall of communism, as ultra-nationalists, nostalgic communists, Westernizers and administrative centrists seek to control the destinies of a deeply- troubled society and state.
Author: Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 0231106076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin, this is a saga of good intentions, philosophical warfare, and catastrophic miscalculations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: David Satter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-04-10
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0300129092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state” (Newsweek). Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: A country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia’s age-old ways of thinking. “With a reporter’s eye for vivid detail and a novelist’s ability to capture emotion, he conveys the drama of Russia’s rocky road for the average victimized Russian . . . This is only half the story of what is happening in Russia these days, but it is the shattering half, and Satter renders it all the more poignant by making it so human.” —Foreign Affairs “[Satter] tells engrossing tales of brazen chicanery, official greed and unbearable suffering . . . Satter manages to bring the events to life with excruciating accounts of real Russians whose lives were shattered.” —The Baltimore Sun “Satter must be commended for saying what a great many people only dare to think.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Humane and articulate.” —The Spectator “Vivid, impeccably researched and truly frightening . . . Western policy-makers would do well to study these pages.” —National Post
Author: Oleg Dmitrievich Davydov
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780823218301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA former Vice Prime Minister, Davydov became Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation in 1993. He traces changes in the country's foreign trade since both industrial and agricultural enterprises were allowed to trade freely across borders. He predicts that his reforms will lead to Russia's integration into the world economy, the integration of the Commonwealth member countries, Russia's admittance into the World Trade Organization, and a free-trade zone with the European Community. No index or bibliography. Translated from Vneshniaia torgovlia, for which no date or publisher are noted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0786492791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.
