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Author : George W. Breslauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Can Gorbachev's Reforms Succeed? written by George W. Breslauer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zdenek Mlynar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718896
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Can Gorbachev Change The Soviet Union? written by Zdenek Mlynar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the specifically Soviet historical and ideological conditions for a change of the system that could take place without dangerous disruptions. It outlines the possibilities for qualitative changes in the Soviet system and the limits to Gorbachev's reforms.
Author : Anders Åslund
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325376
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Russia's Capitalist Revolution written by Anders Åslund and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiroshi Kimura
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351303872
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Gorbachev Regime written by Hiroshi Kimura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union, an international group of U.S. and Japanese authorities probed the issues and forces that shaped a mammoth struggle within the Soviet Union. This book examines Gorbachev's reforms--the extent of their dramatic changes and the sobering evidence of their limits. The contributors' assessments range from wonder at the new atmosphere and expressive possibilities, to recognition of the reforms' reversibility, increasing difficulty, and the long road ahead. This is a fascinating contemporary review of factors that led to the demise of the Soviet Union only a few years later."Perestroika," the transformation of Soviet society and economic relations, epitomized Gorbachev's remedy for the ailing Soviet economy, which developed into a redefinition of Soviet socialism. Gorbachev emphasized that the success of reform depended not only on the technology and money, but also to succeed the reforms must overcome Stalin's legacy of bureaucratic centralism and enlist the creative energies of the Soviet people.This volume explains why the strength and nature of the reform coalition and anti-reform opposition, the limits and prospects of reform, and the compatibility of decentralizing reforms within the centralized one-party Soviet system and the implications of reforms for Soviet relations with the rest of the world.
Author : Linwood P. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Gorbachev Revolution written by Linwood P. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an assessment of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's domestic economic reform program - Perestroika. He inherited an economically sick country when he assumed the post of General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985. In an effort to jump-start the Soviet economy, he has implemented comprehensive internal domestic and external foreign policy changes under the framework of Perestroika and Glasnost. However, because of the years of Soviet government centralization, hyperbureaucracy and inflexibility, Gorbachev's reform programs have not met expectations. To what extent can Gorbachev's policies gain acceptance and succeed? What are the fundamental factors influencing his economic programs? To what degree might his reforms be reversible? The answer to these questions will shape the future of the Soviet Union and determine how the West formulates its foreign policy strategy in the future.
Author : Peter J. Boettke
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415085144
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Why Perestroika Failed written by Peter J. Boettke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorbachev's reforms brought high hopes in the West and empty shelves in the East. Why Perestroika Failed argues that successful reform is only possible on the basis of a sound understanding of market and political processes. Using an Austrian market process approach to analyse the economics of the Soviet system, and a public choice one to sound understanding of market and political address the political dimension, Boettke argues that Gorbachev's reforms were always destined to fail. In part perestroika failed because it was never really implemented. But nonetheless, even if all the major proposals and decrees had been scrupulously adhered to, they would not have produced the structural changes necessary to revive the former Soviet economy. Knowing why perestroika failed is crucially important as the former Soviet republics and East and Central Europe try and chart a new course.
Author : Linwood P. Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (241 download)
Download or read book The Gorbachev Revolution written by Linwood P. Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an assessment of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's domestic economic reform program - Perestroika. He inherited an economically sick country when he assumed the post of General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in March 1985. In an effort to jump-start the Soviet economy, he has implemented comprehensive internal domestic and external foreign policy changes under the framework of Perestroika and Glasnost. However, because of the years of Soviet government centralization, hyperbureaucracy and inflexibility, Gorbachev's reform programs have not met expectations. To what extent can Gorbachev's policies gain acceptance and succeed? What are the fundamental factors influencing his economic programs? To what degree might his reforms be reversible? The answer to these questions will shape the future of the Soviet Union and determine how the West formulates its foreign policy strategy in the future.
Author : Chris Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469630184
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy written by Chris Miller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192880527
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Gorbachev Factor written by Archie Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author writes about Gorbachev, both as the statesman and as the man. He explores how an ordinary man can become a world leader, wielding enormous power.
Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367003609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union? written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245683
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Gorbachev: His Life and Times written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction The definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. "Essential reading for the twenty-first [century]." —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. In the first comprehensive biography of the final Soviet leader, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system’s gravedigger, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, how he found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Throughout, Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev’s unique character that, by Gorbachev’s own admission, make him "difficult to understand." Was he in fact a truly great leader, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced? Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.
Author : Seweryn Bialer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718640
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy written by Seweryn Bialer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet post-Stalin period is examined in its economic, political, and foreign policy dimensions, stressing the factors that provided the gestation environment for Gorbachev's reforms. There follows an analysis of the nature, sources, and plausible outcomes of Gorbachev's "revolution" and the strategies he is applying to it. A separate part of the book examines the changing goals of past U.S. policies toward the Soviet Union and their effectiveness in influencing Soviet behavior. The final part puts forth suggestions and prescriptions for a U.S.approach to the changes in Soviet economic, security, and foreign policies. The East-West Forum is a New York-based research and policy analysis organization sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. Its goal is to bring together experts and policy leaders from differing perspectives and generations to discuss changing patterns of East-West relations. It attempts to formulate long-term analyses and recommendations. In preparing the chapters of this book, the authors drew upon the work of a series of workshops initiated by the Forum.
Author : Herbert J. Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295995816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation written by Herbert J. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's democratic revolution - the very embodiment of Russia's fragile new liberties, including the evolving respect for the rule of law and private property as well as core freedoms of speech, religion, press, and political association. In 1987 President Mikhail Gorbachev expelled Boris Yeltsin from his team of reform politicians, but Yeltsin rebounded from this potentially devastating setback to become the leader of the Russian democratic movement. He created a new office of Russian president, to which he was elected; designed a democratic constitution for the Soviet Union that precipitated a coup attempt by traditionalist communist leaders; granted independence to the nations of the Soviet Union; and replaced Communist Party rule with democracy and the socialist economy with a market economy. In a short period, he had succeeded in becoming the first popularly elected leader in a thousand years of Russian history. He had blocked violent attempts at counter-revolution and overcome powerful resistance to his reform program. His achievements rank among the most extraordinary feats of political leadership in the twentieth century.
Author : Chris Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640678
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Putinomics written by Chris Miller and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin's Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy and the tools Russia's elite have used to achieve its goals. Miller argues that despite Russia's corruption, cronyism, and overdependence on oil as an economic driver, Putin's economic strategy has been surprisingly successful. Explaining the economic policies that underwrote Putin's two-decades-long rule, Miller shows how, at every juncture, Putinomics has served Putin's needs by guaranteeing economic stability and supporting his accumulation of power. Even in the face of Western financial sanctions and low oil prices, Putin has never been more relevant on the world stage.
Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801439001
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Russia's Unfinished Revolution written by Michael McFaul and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require election of political leaders and rule by constitutional procedures. Michael McFaul—described by the New York Times as "one of the leading Russia experts in the United States"—traces Russia's tumultuous political history from Gorbachev's rise to power in 1985 through the 1999 resignation of Boris Yeltsin in favor of Vladimir Putin. McFaul divides his account of the post-Soviet country into three periods: the Gorbachev era (1985-1991), the First Russian Republic (1991–1993), and the Second Russian Republic (1993–present). The first two were, he believes, failures—failed institutional emergence or failed transitions to democracy. By contrast, new democratic institutions did emerge in the third era, though not the institutions of a liberal democracy. McFaul contends that any explanation for Russia's successes in shifting to democracy must also account for its failures. The Russian/Soviet case, he says, reveals the importance of forging social pacts; the efforts of Russian elites to form alliances failed, leading to two violent confrontations and a protracted transition from communism to democracy. McFaul spent a great deal of time in Moscow in the 1990s and witnessed firsthand many of the events he describes. This experience, combined with frequent visits since and unparalleled access to senior Russian policymakers and politicians, has resulted in an astonishingly well-informed account. Russia's Unfinished Revolution is a comprehensive history of Russia during this crucial period.
Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198859546
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction written by Robert J. McMahon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.
Author : Walter Clemens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136451587
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals) written by Walter Clemens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security. In order to answer this question, the author compares advances and setbacks in arms control and security affairs with co-operation on less politically salient issues such as environmental degradation. He finds that in the nearly seventy years preceding Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power, the Kremlin relied on several basic approaches to foreign relations. These policies isolated the Soviet Union from those nations whose co-operation it needed to cope with the escalating interdependencies of the time. Gorbachev, Clemens argues, was the first Soviet leader to recognise both the problems and potential benefits of global interdependence and to explore the possibilities for co-operation between East and West to advance mutual security. Can Russia Change? is unique in its comparative approach and historical perspective, and this reissue will prove invaluable to all those interested in the history of Soviet security and foreign policy, as well as US-Soviet relations.
