Russian Research Center Studies – serie
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Reinventing Russia
Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991
Häftad, 2000
337 kr
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What caused the emergence of nationalist movements in many post-communist states? What role did communist regimes play in fostering these movements? Why have some been more successful than others? To address these questions, Yitzhak Brudny traces the Russian nationalist movement from its origins …
Closer to the Masses
Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers
Inbunden, 2004
844 kr
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In this provocative book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political …
Chernyshevskii
The Man and the Journalist
Inbunden, 1971
538 kr
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N. G. Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the protest movement that developed in Russia after the Crimean War, was esteemed by both Marx and Lenin. Alienated from Russia's traditional values, institutions, and power structure, he nevertheless rejected the economic doctrines and …
Formation of the Soviet Union
Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923, Revised Edition
Häftad, 1997
522 kr
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Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central …
Ghost of the Executed Engineer
Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Av Loren Graham
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate …
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Early Years
Inbunden, 1998
1080 kr
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One of the foremost Russian writers of the Soviet period, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) has attracted much critical attention. But Edythe Haber is the first to explore in depth his formative years, to probe the roots of his artistic vision. Her study yields a new picture of the novelist and …
Soviet Bloc
Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition
Av Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
Häftad, 1967
507 kr
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This is the first full-length study of relations among the communist states. The study explores the implications of the status of Yugoslavia and China, the significance of the Hungarian revolution and the position of Poland in the Soviet bloc, and clarifies the Khrushchev–Gomulka clash of 1956 and …
Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure
The RSFSR Codes, Second Edition
Inbunden, 1966
905 kr
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There is no better key to the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet social system than Soviet law. Here in English translation is the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the largest of the fifteen Soviet Republics—containing the basic criminal law of the Soviet Union and virtually the …
Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed
Welfare Policy and Workers’ Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin
Inbunden, 1993
991 kr
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As their woefully backward economy continues to crumble, much of the Soviet population remains indifferent, if not downright hostile, to the idea of reform. This phenomenon, so different from the Solidarity movement in Poland or the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, has been explained in terms …
Stealing the State
Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions
Inbunden, 1998
835 kr
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What led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union? Steven Solnick argues, contrary to most current literature, that the Soviet system did not fall victim to stalemate at the top or to a revolution from below, but rather to opportunism from within. In three case studies--on the Communist Youth League, …
Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840
Inbunden, 2000
863 kr
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This comprehensive study of the Russian literary travelogue, a genre that blossomed in the early nineteenth century, sheds new light on Russian literature and culture of the period.In the decades before and during the rise of the Russian novel, a new form of prose writing took hold in Russia: …
