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Molotov: A Biography
Av D. Watson
Inbunden, 2005
1740 kr
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's struggle with the oppositions, …
Stalinism and Soviet Rail Transport, 1928–41
Av E. A. Rees
Inbunden, 1995
1128 kr
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This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It focuses on the development of rail transport policy, upon which the entire economy as well as the country's defence were so crucially dependent. It analyses the role of institutional lobbies in …
Plans for Stalin's War-Machine
Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941
Av L. Samuelson
Inbunden, 1999
1128 kr
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In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. Based on recently opened Russian archives, the book analyzes military dimensions of Soviet long-term economic and military reconstruction plans from the mid-1920s …
Radical Right in Interwar Estonia
Av A. Kasekamp
Inbunden, 2000
1095 kr
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The first detailed study of Estonian politics during the 1930s, this book examines the Estonian Veterans' League which won a majority in a referendum for its constitutional amendment creating a strong presidency. The Veterans appeared set to triumph in the 1934 elections, but were thwarted by the …
Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet
War and Politics, February 1917–April 1918
Inbunden, 1978
1128 kr
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Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution
Av R. W. Davies
Inbunden, 1989
1128 kr
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Since Gorbachev took office in 1985, every aspect of the Soviet past has been under scrutiny. Tens of millions of Soviet citizens are eagerly absorbing and debating the vast outpouring of novels, books and articles, and films and TV programmes, about their past. Much new information has appeared, …
Soviet Communist Party in Disarray
The XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Av E. Rees
Inbunden, 1992
1688 kr
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This book presents an in-depth analysis of the proceedings of the XXVIII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It explores the struggle for power between radicals, reformers and conservatives, focusing on the debate on political reform, the role of the Party, Soviet history, economic …
Public Opinion in Postcommunist Russia
Häftad, 1996
333 kr
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This book is a comprehensive account of trends in Russian public opinion over the period 1988-94. Analysing data from Russian polling organizations, it covers the development of a professional polling industry and looks at changing popular moods; the depth of democratic values; attitudes towards …
Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Economic Development
Long Cycles and Industrial Growth in Historical Context
Inbunden, 1998
1163 kr
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Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.D. Kondratiev (1892-1938), who was a key policy adviser to the Soviet government in the early part of the 1920s. Kondratiev developed a market-led industrialization strategy for the USSR, in direct …
Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era
Av R. W. Davies
Häftad, 1997
343 kr
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Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance. The author of the acclaimed Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution now examines the impact of the collapse of Communism and of the subsequent disillusionment with capitalism on Soviet history. The uses of history after the 1991 …
Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia
Av M. Perrie
Inbunden, 2001
1163 kr
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Ivan IV, the sixteenth-century Russian tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of Stalin's campaign for patriotism. In addition to historians' …
Stalinism in a Russian Province
Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia
Av J. Hughes
Inbunden, 1996
1128 kr
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Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives. Through a pioneering application of the theoretical approaches of moral and political …
Soviet Railways to Russian Railways
Av J. Westwood
Inbunden, 2001
1186 kr
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In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered …
Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy
From 'Protection' to 'Equality'
Av M. Ilic
Inbunden, 1998
1128 kr
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This book examines changes in official Soviet policy towards the labour protection of women workers, 1917-41. Important legislative enactments are analysed. In the 1920s emphasis was placed on the 'protection' of female labour by the agencies responsible for regulating women's role in industrial …
Russia and Islam
A Historical Survey
Inbunden, 2002
1095 kr
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The end of communism has revived the historical debate about Russia's relations with both the West and the East. Some commentators viewed the Russian-Chechen war as a clash of civilizations, which would shape the future relationships between the new Russia and its Muslim periphery and perhaps lead …
Plans for Stalin's War-Machine
Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941
Av L. Samuelson
Inbunden, 1999
1128 kr
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In the interwar period, Red Army commanders headed by Tukhachevskii developed a new doctrine of mobile warfare and 'deep operations'. The military requirements of armaments and industrial production in the event of war was a central parameter in Stalinist industrialization. Based on recently opened …
Russia's Provinces
Authoritarian Transformation versus Local Autonomy?
Av P. Kirkow
Inbunden, 1998
1095 kr
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This book focuses on the evolution of federalism and intragovernmental relations in Russia for the period 1992-95 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Its main question is whether under conditions of democratisation and marketisation in Russia an authoritarian approach of 'transformation …
Gender in Russian History and Culture
Av L. Edmondson, Linda Harriet Edmondson
Inbunden, 2001
1352 kr
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This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction …
Soviet Defence Industry Complex from Stalin to Krushchev
Av J. Barber, M. Harrison
Inbunden, 1999
1128 kr
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The huge complex of Soviet institutions and enterprises specialised in military production powerfully influenced the course of the twentieth century through resistance to imperial Japan, the defeat of Nazi Germany, and nuclear stalemate with America in the Cold War. Based on collaborative research …
School,Reform and Society in the New Russia
Av S. Webber
Inbunden, 1999
1064 kr
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The Russian school system should have an important role to play in the process of democratisation and the revival and modernisation of the economy in that country. Is it in a position to respond to this task? In this book an analysis is conducted of the attempts to reform the Russian school system …
Bribery and Blat in Russia
Negotiating Reciprocity from the Early Modern Period to the 1990s
Av S. Lovell, A. Rogachevskii m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1422 kr
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For several centuries, the Russians have been famous (or notorious) for the number of transactions they conduct through unofficial channels. This book, the first sustained attempt to explain and analyse Russian society's heavy reliance on unofficial 'give-and-take', focuses especially on two key …
Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History
Inbunden, 2002
1128 kr
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This collection presents views on key aspects of Russian/Soviet history such as the non-Slavic sources of Russian statehood; tsarist penal systems; the pre-evolutionary technological level; the famine of 1931-3; patronage practices in Stalin's Russia; and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Creating the New Soviet Woman
Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53
Av L. Attwood
Inbunden, 1999
1128 kr
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This book explores the Soviet attempt to propagandise the 'new Soviet woman' through the magazines Rabotnitsa and Krest'yanka from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era. Balancing work and family did not prove easy in a climate of shifting economic and demographic priorities, and the book charts …
Women in the Stalin Era
Av Melanie Ilic
Inbunden, 2001
960 kr
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This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and …
Brezhnev Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2002
1163 kr
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Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for almost two decades when it was at the height of its powers. This book is a long overdue reappraisal of Brezhnev the man and the system over which he ruled. By incorporating much of the new material available in Russian, it challenges the received …
Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet
War and Politics, February 1917–April 1918
Häftad, 1978
1128 kr
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Employment Planning in the Soviet Union
Continuity and Change
Häftad, 1990
568 kr
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A study of many aspects of employment conditions and the labour force in the Soviet Union. It examines production capacity, job rights under Soviet law and an outline of Soviet wage policy. The information is current as Soviet newspapers and journals were used as research material.
