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Author: Linda J. Cook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780674828001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.
Author: Diane P. Koenker
Publisher:
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9781780393803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-05
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1000312712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
Author: Stephen Lovell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-07-23
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0199238480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Author: Joseph Stalin
Publisher: Livraria Press
Published: 2024-05-09
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 3989881949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In one of his last works written in 1952, Stalin addresses various economic challenges facing the Soviet Union in its pursuit of socialism. He discusses topics ranging from commodity production under socialism to the role of the law of value, offering insights and solutions based on Marxist-Leninist theory.
Author: Alex Inkeles
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780674498754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tomila V. Lankina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1009080393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' – Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist – to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-16
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521894234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of Soviet education policy 1921-34, this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment.
Author: Julie Makarychev, Andrey Umland, Andreas Fedor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 3838214668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpecial Sections: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the “Near Abroad” and Russia's Annexiation of Crimea II This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive “realist” agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote “soft-power” and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.
Author: Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0520321804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
