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Author: Bohdan Nahaylo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0029224012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnic upheaval throughout the USSR now threatens the very reforms introduced by Gorbachev and may well decide the fate of his government. This volume describes the histories of the suppressed and angry nationalities, their drive for the restoration of national rights, and the implications for the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[This book] has been organized to provide a unique opportunity to challenge current artistic paradigms by displaying the diversity, creativity and technical brilliance that is incorporated in both Socialist Realist and nonconformist art. The exhibition presents examples of the two internally competing views of contemporary life in the Soviet Union, providing a cross section of the art of the period as a mirror of a society that was largely isolated from most Americans at the time."--From introduction.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on European Affairs
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Strayer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-16
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1315503964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on European Affairs
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lubomyr Y. Luciuk
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Kashtan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Mccauley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1317867831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An expert in probing mafia-type relationships in present-day Russia, Martin McCauley here offers a vigorously written scrutiny of Soviet politics and society since the days of Lenin and Stalin.' John Keep, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. The birth of the Soviet Union surprised many; its demise amazed the whole world. How did imperial Russia give way to the Soviet Union in 1917, and why did the USSR collapse so quickly in 1991? Marxism promised paradise on earth, but the Communist Party never had true power, instead allowing Lenin and Stalin to become dictators who ruled in its name. The failure of the planned economy to live up to expectations led to a boom in the unplanned economy, in particular the black market. In turn, this led to the growth of organised crime and corruption within the government. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics. Including first-person accounts, anecdotes, illustrations and diagrams to illustrate key concepts, McCauley provides a seminal history of twentieth-century Russia.
Author: Oleh Havrylyshyn
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses the prospects of establishing an Eastern Economic Community in the former Soviet Union.
Author: Larry Wolff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0674246284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria concluded agreements to annex and eradicate the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. With the partitioning of Poland, the dioceses of the Uniate Church (later known as the Greek Catholic Church) were fractured by the borders of three regional hegemons. Larry Wolff's deeply engaging account of these events delves into the politics of the Episcopal elite, the Vatican, and the three rulers behind the partitions: Catherine II of Russia, Frederick II of Prussia, and Joseph II of Austria. Wolff uses correspondence with bishops in the Uniate Church and ministerial communiquÂs to reveal the nature of state policy as it unfolded. Disunion within the Union adopts methodologies from the history of popular culture pioneered by Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre) and Carlo Ginzburg (The Cheese and the Worms) to explore religious experience on a popular level, especially questions of confessional identity and practices of piety. This detailed study of the responses of common Uniate parishioners, as well as of their bishops and hierarchs, to the pressure of the partitions paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.
