Sovereignty After Empire
Author: Galina Vasilevna Starovotova
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
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The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics
Author: Anna Batta
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-24
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1000485579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine’s benevolent and inclusive treatment of the large Russian minority, whereas in other republics with less benevolent approaches to minorities intervention did not occur, for example Kazakhstan, where discrimination against the Russian minority increased over time, and Latvia, where the country on its accession to the European Union was deemed to have good minority rights protection, despite a record of discrimination against the Russian minority. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of the perceptions of the republic government regarding the interaction between the minority’s kin-state and the minority, the role that minorities played within the nation-building process and after secession, and the dual threat coming from both the domestic and international spheres.
Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union
Author: Alekseĭ Arbatov
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780262510936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collaborative effort by Russian and American scholars documents Russian policy toward ethno-national conflict in its "near abroad," American policy toward these conflicts, and the attempts of international organizations to prevent and resolve them. Case studies consider the causes, dynamics, and prospects of conflicts in Latvia, the Crimea, the Transdniester region of Moldova, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the region of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.
Conflict in the Former USSR
Author: Matthew Sussex
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 052176310X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a major concern in international security: the nature and causes of conflict in the former Soviet Union.
The Former Soviet Union in Transition
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 476
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Author: Vladislav M. Zubok
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0300262442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.
The Development of Capitalism in Russia
Author: Vladimir I. Lenin
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781410213006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCONTENTS The Development of Capitalism in Russia The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists The Differentiation of the Peasantry The Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist Economy The Growth of Commercial Agriculture The First Stages of Capitalism in Industry Capitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic Industry The Development of Large-Scale Machine Industry The Formation of the Home Market
The Soviet Nuclear Weapon Legacy
Author: Marco De Andreis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinally, the book assesses the contribution of international assistance programmes to the denuclearization process under way in the former Soviet Union.
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
Author: Richard Pipes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-04-27
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 030778858X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative history of the Russian Revolution and the "violent and disruptive acts" that created the first modern totalitarian regime, portraying the crisis at the heart of the tsarist empire "A deep and eloquent condemnation of the revolution and its aftermath." —The New York Times Drawing on archival materials released in Russia, Richard Pipes chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative revolt but was soon captured by messianic intellectuals intent not merely on reforming Russia but on remaking the world. He provides fresh accounts of the revolution's personalities and policies, crises, and cruelties, from the murder of the royal family through civil war, famine, and state terror. Brilliantly and persuasively, Pipes shows us why the resulting system owes less to the theories of Marx than it did to the character of Lenin and Russia's long authoritarian tradition. What ensues is a path-clearing work that is indispensable to any understanding of the events of the century.
25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries
Author: Jeroen Huisman
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-09
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781013290909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
