Perestroika From Below

Perestroika From Below

Author: Judith Sedaitis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1000315371

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This book represents the first comprehensive assessment of the world of social movements and collective action in the Soviet Union, and provides the information to expand our knowledge and potentially our comprehension of the dramatic processes taking place.


Perestroika from Below

Perestroika from Below

Author: Judith Sedaitis

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-13

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780367282608

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This book represents the first comprehensive assessment of the world of social movements and collective action in the Soviet Union, and provides the information to expand our knowledge and potentially our comprehension of the dramatic processes taking place.


Six Years that Shook the World

Six Years that Shook the World

Author: Rachel Walker

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780719032875

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Focuses on the six years of perestroika in the Soviet Union and suggests that many of the problems confronting the new states were first created during this time. The book tries to explore and explain some of these developments, covering events up to August 1992.


What Went Wrong with Perestroika

What Went Wrong with Perestroika

Author: Marshall I. Goldman

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780393309041

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A political commentator discusses the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, revealing Gorbachev as a reluctant reformer, who did nothing to counter the nation's overindulgence of heavy industry.


Perestroika

Perestroika

Author: Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev

Publisher: Fontana Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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Relates the Soviet changes in attitudes, ideas, and practices that he is implementing.


The Roots of Perestroika

The Roots of Perestroika

Author: Sidney Ploss

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0786457090

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With new information from Russian archives, this work examines the historical roots of Gorbachev's perestroika and the reforms that would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The controversies among Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev over party role, economic management, resource allocation, ethnic policies, legality and foreign relations are discussed. An appendix "reads between the lines" in historic Soviet texts, and a helpful list of Soviet leaders, with brief identifications, is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.


Perestroika

Perestroika

Author: Михаил Сергеевич Горбачев

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Contains primary source material.


Soviet Society Under Perestroika

Soviet Society Under Perestroika

Author: David Lane

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1134903030

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This is an up-to-the-minute revised edition of a text which, since its publication in 1990, has been extremely influential. The great changes of the past 18 months have entailed a comprehensive updating of the book. This edition takes account of new developments that include the independence of the Baltic states and the treaty which sparked 1991's attempted coup.