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Freedom and Terror in the Donbas
A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s
Häftad, 2003
955 kr
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This book discusses both the freedom of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland of the Donbas and the terror it has suffered because of that freedom. In a detailed panorama the book presents the tumultuous history of this steppe frontier land from its foundation as a modern coal and steel industrial …
Freedom and Terror in the Donbas
A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s
Inbunden, 1998
1391 kr
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This book discusses both the freedom of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland of the Donbas and the terror it has suffered because of that freedom. In a detailed panorama the book presents the tumultuous history of this steppe frontier land from its foundation as a modern coal and steel industrial …
The Commissariat of Enlightenment
Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of communication between the government and Bolshevik party on the one hand, and the …
Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928-1930
Av S. G. Wheatcroft, R. W. Davies
Häftad, 2005
720 kr
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This book contains a full translation of a major but little-known Soviet work on Soviet national income accounts for a crucial stage in the social and economic transformation of the Soviet economy from 1928 to 1930. These were years of mass collectivisation and the launching of the Soviet …
Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881
Häftad, 2005
720 kr
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The reform era in Russia (1855-1881) witnessed the emancipation of the serfs, economic and social change, the reform of all imperial institutions, and the growth of national identity among Russians and the Empire's expanding Jewish population. Consequently, the 'Jewish Question' became one of most …
Modernising Lenin's Russia
Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of …
An Algebra of Soviet Power
Elite Circulation in the Belorussian Republic 1966-86
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Control of office has long been regarded as the key element in understanding power and policy in the Soviet system. What, however, accounts for the control of office and how are individuals recruited into positions of power and responsibility? In An Algebra of Soviet Power, Michael Urban adopts a …
East Germany and Detente
Building Authority after the Wall
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The emergence of East Germany as one of Europe's most vocal advocates of East-West détente in the 1980s represented a remarkable political transformation. Prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, East Germany had been amongst the most intransigent proponents of the Cold War, largely because of …
Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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This book seeks to understand the evolution of Soviet policy towards the countries of South Asia, the regional constraints and policy opportunities which influenced the policy process in Moscow, and the relationship between Soviet perceptions and policy objectives. The author divides Soviet foreign …
Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika
The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Soviet Workers and and the Collapse of Perestroika is a comprehensive analysis of the role of labour policy in the development and ultimate collapse of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Filtzer argues that initially perestroika was designed to modernize the Soviet …
Women in the Soviet Countryside
Women's Roles in Rural Development in the Soviet Union
Häftad, 2008
601 kr
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Research on women's roles in rural development has found that women's contribution to the rural economy is commonly underestimated and that women may find it difficult to benefit from the development process. Within this context, this book looks at the Soviet experience of development as reflected …
Collective Farms which Work?
Av Nigel Swain
Häftad, 2008
606 kr
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This book analyses Hungarian collectivization from a sociological perspective. Rather than consider Eastern European societies in the light of social stratification and social mobility surveys, it takes as its point of departure the commitment of Eastern European societies to industrialization …
The Hungarian Model
Markets and Planning in a Socialist Economy
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book provides an exceptionally thorough treatment of the Hungarian economy and its experience of economic reform. Within a wider discussion of the appliance and success of Soviet-type economies (STEs), the author investigates the decentralizing measures and market mechanisms which have been …
Ideology in a Socialist State
Poland 1956-1983
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Ideology in a Socialist State describes the changes in the ideology of Poland's rulers from the October events of 1956 to the lifting of martial law in 1983. Ideology has been one of the most debated and equivocal concepts in social science, yet this is one of the first attempts to examine it in a …
Latin America through Soviet Eyes
The Evolution of Soviet Perceptions during the Brezhnev Era 1964-1982
Av Ilya Prizel
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America during the Brezhnev years. Dr Prizel surveys the views of Soviet academics and journalists as well as of politicians on three main areas. He explores the …
Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland
A Critical Sociology of Soviet-Type Society
Häftad, 2008
878 kr
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The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century, Michael …
Socialism and Democracy in Czechoslovakia
1945-1948
Av M. R. Myant
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book is about the political, social and economic changes in Czechoslovakia in the years 1945- 1948. In 1945 the 'national revolution' established the Communist Party as the dominant force within a coalition government. The leading Communists then evolved the idea of a specific Czechoslovak …
Soviet Book Publishing Policy
Häftad, 2008
557 kr
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This book first published in 1978 provides a broad and comprehensive view of the Soviet book publishing industry based on extensive use of Soviet sources and on visits and interviews conducted in the Soviet Union. Book publishing is examined both as a manufacturing and distributing industry …
Lenin's Government
Sovnarkom 1917-1922
Av T. H. Rigby
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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When Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 they sought to scrap the existing structures of government and substitute new ones based on Marxist principles. This book attempts a detailed account of their efforts to create a socialist 'cabinet' (Sovnarkom), to elaborate effective …
The Modernization of Soviet Industrial Management
Socioeconomic Development and the Search for Viability
Häftad, 2008
737 kr
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This book first published in 1982 considers the problems of efficiently managing large enterprises which are common to both the West and to the Soviet Union. The growth in management science in the West has been paralleled in the Soviet Union in the years since Khrushchev's fall. Professor …
The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power
The Polish United Workers' Party, Industrial Organisation and Workforce Control 1958-80
Av Jean Woodall
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers' Party. She argues that political constraints on the available options for economic reform have encouraged a policy of merger of industrial enterprises into …
An Economic Background to Munich
International Business and Czechoslovakia 1918-1938
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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The economic background to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938 has not received the attention it deserves. This book helps to redress this imbalance by analysing in depth the web of foreign interests - direct foreign investment, foreign long-term loans and the activities of …
The Prediction of Communist Economic Performance
Av P. J. D. Wiles, P. J. D. Wiles
Häftad, 2008
670 kr
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This study represents attempts dating from 1967, by nine experts on Communist economics, to forecast the performance of individual Communist countries. These predictions provide a great deal of comparable information and make experimental use of elementary econometrical techniques, which have …
Russian Peasant Organisation Before Collectivisation
A Study of Commune and Gathering 1925-1930
Av D. J. Male
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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Most Russian peasants in the mid-1920s held their land as members of a commune (or mir), the old Russian form of land-holding. The revolution had brought a revival in the fortunes of the institution. This was not a welcome development to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet government unsuccessfully …
The Agrarian Policy of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party
From its Origins through the Revolution of 1905-1907
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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The Socialist-Revolutionary (SR) party gained an overall majority in the election to the Russian Constituent Assembly, which was dissolved by the Bolsheviks in January 1918. The SRs derived the bulk of their electoral support from the peasantry, and the gulf between the predominantly urban …
The Czechoslovak Reform Movement
Communism in Crisis 1962-1968
Av Galia Golan
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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In 1968 the Czechoslovak Communist Party undertook an experiment which might well have rejuvenated and inspired the prospects for Communism at least in the Western world. This `Prague Spring' was but the climax of a long, intensive struggle waged within the Czechoslovak party and society since 1956 …
Reform Rule in Czechoslovakia
The Dubcek Era 1968-1969
Av Galia Golan
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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This book studies in detail the reform regime of Alexander Dubcek from the assumption of power in the Party by reform-minded communists in January 1968 until Gustav Husik replaced Dubcek as First Secretary. The reform regime survived only eight months of genuine rule but it persisted for a further …
Soviet Economists of the Twenties
Names to be Remembered
Av Naum Jasny
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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Stalin's abrupt resolution of the crucial Soviet economic debate of the twenties - on the pace and method of industrialization - forced upon many the alternative of imprisonment or flight. Among them were not only political opponents and anti-collectivist peasants, but also economic officials and …
The Precarious Truce
Anglo-Soviet Relations 1924-27
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Lenin's death at the beginning of 1924 coincided with an exhaustive search by the USSR for a modus vivendi with the capitalist world. In laying the foundations of peaceful co-existence, priority was given to the cultivation of relations with Britain. This study examines the British government's …
Church and State in Yugoslavia since 1945
Häftad, 2008
687 kr
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This full-length study of the relations between Church and state in communist regime is set in the only communist country where free research into the subject has ever been possible; it gains additional interest and topicality from the identification of religion and nationalism in a multi-national …
