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Book Synopsis Alexander Yakovlev by : Richard Pipes
Download or read book Alexander Yakovlev written by Richard Pipes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a single full-scale biography has been devoted to him. In his study of the unsung hero, Richard Pipes seeks to rectify this lacuna and give Yakovlev his historical due. Yakovlev's life provides a unique instance of a leading figure in the Soviet government who evolved from a dedicated Communist and Stalinist into an equally ardent foe of everything the Leninist-Stalinist regime stood for. He quit government service in 1991 and lived until 2005, becoming toward the end of his life a classical western liberal who shared none of the traditional Russian values. Pipes's illuminating study consists of two parts: a biography of Yakovlev and Pipes's translation of two important articles by Yakovlev. It will appeal to specialists and students of Soviet and post-Soviet studies, government officials involved with foreign policy, and general readers interested in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms by : Aleksandr Nikolaevich I︠A︡kovlev
Download or read book Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms written by Aleksandr Nikolaevich I︠A︡kovlev and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fate of Marxism in Russia by : Alexander Yakovlev
Download or read book The Fate of Marxism in Russia written by Alexander Yakovlev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Yakovlev, a major architect of perestroika and a leading sponsor of glasnost, was a senior Soviet official who worked at the highest echelon of government side by side with Mikhail Gorbachev. In this powerful book, Yakovlev acknowledges the decay of his country and reveals his painful intellectual and political odyssey as he progressed from stalwart Party ideologist and propagandist to disillusioned critic of Marxism and Communism. Yakovlev vividly describes the ways that Marxism has proven to be not only wrong but ruinous to Russia, as it demolished civil society and ruthlessly replaced it with immorality and state-supported atheism. He discusses the pervasive, historical roots of the Russian authoritarian consciousness that helps explain why Russian society was so susceptible to the totalitarian implications of Marxism. He describes the triumvirate structure of power in the USSR before and during perestroika, the political reforms that were initiated, the ways that Soviet attitudes toward glasnost and perestroika evolved in both the reformist and conservative wings of the Party, and the reasons for the seemingly final swift collapse of the old ruling structures--the crushing defeat of the Party--in August 1991. Assessing the situation in Russia now that Marx's teachings and the Communist Party have been rejected, Yakovlev warns that if the economic situation worsens further, Russian society will be prepared to sacrifice democracy for even modest economic growth. He urges the restructuring of Soviet society on a new basis of democracy, morality, common sense, and economic efficiency. The book includes as appendixes five speeches given by Yakovlev in the West between November 1991 and January 1992 that provide further insight into his thinking after the collapse of the Communist Party.
Book Synopsis Alexander Yakovlev by : Richard Pipes
Download or read book Alexander Yakovlev written by Richard Pipes and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Digging Out by : Alexander N. Yakovlev
Download or read book Digging Out written by Alexander N. Yakovlev and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells two stories: how Soviet Union became a terror state, and how a small band of reformers associated with Gorbachev and Yeltsin brought an end to the socialist experiment.
Author :Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev Publisher :Yale University Press ISBN 13 :0300087608 Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by : Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev
Download or read book A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia written by Anthony Austin, Paul Hollander, Aleksandr Nikolaevich I͡Akovlev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Aim of a Lifetime. The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane. (Translated ... by Vladimir Vezey.). by : Aleksandr Sergeevich YAKOVLEV
Download or read book The Aim of a Lifetime. The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane. (Translated ... by Vladimir Vezey.). written by Aleksandr Sergeevich YAKOVLEV and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes of an Aircraft Designer by : Alexander Yakovlev
Download or read book Notes of an Aircraft Designer written by Alexander Yakovlev and published by University Press of the Pacific. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the frank and engaging autobiography of one of the Soviet Union's most successful aircraft designers. Yakovlev is best known for his piston-engined fighters, his sports planes, some early Soviet helicopters, and the first Soviet all-weather jet fighter. The book includes his interesting, and caustic, impressions of the aircraft industries of Western Europe, which Yakovlev visited in the late thirties. Alexander S. Yakovlev was one of the most versatile aircraft designers of his age, but he had the misfortune to work in the USSR, which made him almost unknown to the outside world. In 1926-27 he built his first aeroplane, the AIR-1, and from then on he consistently designed structures which were years ahead of their time. Yakovlev died in 1989, and today his design bureau, still on the site of the old bed factory, is the giant Yak Aircraft Corporation. It produces the most important Russian twinjet airliner, a diverse group of general aviation aircraft, an advanced jet trainer and light attack aircraft and, in conjunction with the Museum of Flying in California, replicas of the Yak-3 wartime fighter. The Yakovlev Design Bureau has designed aircraft from gliders to jet transports, not to mention vertical take-off fighters and helicopters since before World War II.
Book Synopsis Operator Theory for Electromagnetics by : George W. Hanson
Download or read book Operator Theory for Electromagnetics written by George W. Hanson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses electromagnetics from the view of operator theory, in a manner more commonly seen in textbooks of quantum mechanics. It includes a self-contained introduction to operator theory, presenting definitions and theorems, plus proofs of the theorems when these are simple or enlightening.
Book Synopsis The Soviet Ambassador by : Christopher Shulgan
Download or read book The Soviet Ambassador written by Christopher Shulgan and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few realize that behind Mikhail Gorbachev’s Cold War-ending perestroika reforms stood an owlish figure who was just as important as the Soviet leader himself. Fewer still know the role Canada played in transforming Gorbachev’s advisor from a devout Stalinist to the most potent force for democracy and justice ever to walk the halls of the Kremlin. His name was Aleksandr Yakovlev. Today in an increasingly autocratic Russia he’s reviled as the man who brought down the Soviet empire–the "architect" of perestroika and the "godfather" of glasnost, who, some say, was the puppetmaster manipulating Gorbachev’s strings. Yakovlev is acknowledged to have devised the strategy that won Gorbachev the job of Soviet leader. After the Soviet collapse, Yakovlev was the only other man present as Gorbachev negotiated his transfer of power to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. In between, Yakovlev was behind every democratic measure Gorbachev instituted, leading the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick to dub him "Gorbachev’s good angel." His origins were anything but democratic. As a youth, Yakovlev was a faithful Communist who idolized Stalin. By 1970 he had ascended to a position that controlled every media outlet in the Soviet Union, requiring him to plot repressive strategies against such dissidents as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov But then a mis-step caused the Party to banish him from Moscow. A disgraced Yakovlev landed in the Cold War backwater of Ottawa working as the Soviet ambassador to Canada. His career should have been over. But Yakovlev’s diplomatic posting functioned as an education in Western democracy. He grew fascinated with elections, attended trials and became an expert in the machinations of a market economy. He also developed a close friendship with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who helped arrange to bring Mikhail Gorbachev on his first visit to North America. It was in Canada that Gorbachev and Yakovlev struck up their friendship as they strategized for the first time the radical changes known as perestroika. Drawing on interviews with Yakovlev’s family and dozens of his friends, as well as never-before-disclosed archival research material, The Soviet Ambassador recounts Yakovlev’s tortuous evolution from Stalin’s acolyte to Stalinism’s nemesis, from faithful member of the Communist Party to liberal democrat engineering the same Party’s collapse. With profound implications for diplomacy in a conflict-driven age, Yakovlev’s story is also a remarkable testament to the power of conviction, and an inspiring account of an underdog overcoming injustice to improve the lives of his fellow citizens.
Book Synopsis The Aim of a Lifetime by : Aleksandr Sergeevich Iakovlev
Download or read book The Aim of a Lifetime written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Iakovlev and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future Is History by : Masha Gessen
Download or read book The Future Is History written by Masha Gessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.
Book Synopsis Towards Realism in Assessments and Actions by :
Download or read book Towards Realism in Assessments and Actions written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Striving for Law in a Lawless Land by : Alexander M. Yakovlev
Download or read book Striving for Law in a Lawless Land written by Alexander M. Yakovlev and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider account of the struggle to reform the Soviet/Russian legal system and create a law-based society. This text situates the formal commitment to democratic politics, and the creation of a legal and constitutional order within the context of Russian history and tradition.
Book Synopsis Works by Alexander Yakovlev and Nikolai Kalmakov by : Sotheby's (Firm)
Download or read book Works by Alexander Yakovlev and Nikolai Kalmakov written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Aim of a Lifetime by : Aleksandr Sergeevich I︠A︡kovlev
Download or read book The Aim of a Lifetime written by Aleksandr Sergeevich I︠A︡kovlev and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den russiske flykonstruktør, Alexander Yakovlev, beretter om sit liv.
Download or read book Neutron Stars 1 written by P. Haensel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. With masses comparable to that of the Sun and radii of about ten kilometres, neutron stars are the densest stars in the Universe. This book describes all layers of neutron stars, from the surface to the core, with the emphasis on their structure and equation of state. Theories of dense matter are reviewed, and used to construct neutron star models. Hypothetical strange quark stars and possible exotic phases in neutron star cores are also discussed. Also covered are the effects of strong magnetic fields in neutron star envelopes.
