Soviet Russia Today
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 442
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Author: Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0253057604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a "bad past." While Putin's regime has acquired nearly complete control over interpretations of the past, The Future of the Soviet Past reveals that Russia's inability to fully rewrite its Soviet history plays an essential part in its current political agenda. Diverse contributors consider the many ways in which public narrative shapes Russian culture—from cinema, television, and music to museums, legislature, and education—as well as how patriotism reflected in these forms of culture implies a casual acceptance of the valorization of Stalin and his role in World War II. The Future of the Soviet Past provides effective and nuanced examples of how Russia has reimagined its Soviet history as well as how that past still influences Russia's policymaking.
Author: John Gunther
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0822980932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of "electoral authoritarianism" which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country's essentially authoritarian rulers. Why and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated in Russia? What are the mechanisms of its maintenance, and what is its likely future course? This book attempts to answer these basic questions. Vladimir Gel'man examines regime change in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day, systematically presenting theoretical and comparative perspectives of the factors that affected regime changes and the authoritarian drift of the country. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia's national political elites aimed to achieve their goals by creating and enforcing of favorable "rules of the game" for themselves and maintaining informal winning coalitions of cliques around individual rulers. In the 1990s, these moves were only partially successful given the weakness of the Russian state and troubled post-socialist economy. In the 2000s, however, Vladimir Putin rescued the system thanks to the combination of economic growth and the revival of the state capacity he was able to implement by imposing a series of non-democratic reforms. In the 2010s, changing conditions in the country have presented new risks and challenges for the Putin regime that will play themselves out in the years to come.
Author: Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780231106061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991, from the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin.
Author: Evans Clark
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Lahusen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 3825806405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism.
Author: Claude-Marie Vadrot
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA French photographer & Soviet photographer capture the essence of Russian life just before the fall of socialism.
Author: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-06-19
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1139455710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.
Author: Freda Utley
Publisher: New York : John Day [c1940]
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 392
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