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Contemporary Russian Politics

Author : Neil Robinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509525181
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Russian Politics written by Neil Robinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin for a fourth presidential term in 2018 has seen Russian democracy weaken further and Russia’s relations with the West deteriorate seriously. Yet, within Russia, Putin’s position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles have received widespread public support. But is Putin as safe as his approval ratings lead us to believe? And how secure is the regime that he heads? In this new book, Neil Robinson places contemporary Russian politics in historical perspective to argue that Putin’s regime has not overcome the problems that underpinned the momentous changes in twentieth-century Russian history when the country veered from tsarism to Soviet rule to post-communist chaos. The first part of the book, outlining why crises have been perennial problems for Russia, is followed by an exploration of contemporary Russian political institutions and policy to show how Putin has stabilised Russian politics. But, while Putin’s achievements as a politician have been considerable in strengthening his personal position, they have not dealt successfully with the enduring problem of the Russian state’s functionality. Like other Russian rulers, Putin has been much better at establishing a political system that supports his rule than he has at building up a state that can deliver material wealth and protection to the Russian people. As a result, Robinson argues, Russia has been and remains vulnerable to political crisis and regime change.

Contemporary Soviet Politics

Author : Donald D. Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Soviet Politics written by Donald D. Barry and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Soviet Politics

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Download or read book Contemporary Soviet Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Soviet Government

Author : L.G. Churchward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040007155
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Soviet Government written by L.G. Churchward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Soviet Government (1975) is a leading study of the practice of Soviet government, examined against a background of Soviet Marxism. It presents an analysis of the Soviet political system since the death of Stalin, and places considerable emphasis on the role of state, as distinct from Party, organisations – as the author contends that these are more important than commonly realised in the West.

Soviet Politics 1917-1991

Author : Mary McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198780663
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Soviet Politics 1917-1991 written by Mary McAuley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of mere months in 1991, the Soviet Union saw an attempted coup fail, Gorbachev leave office, the Baltic states acquire independence, Leningrad vote to rename itself St Petersburg, the Communist Party disband, and the Russian flag fly over the Kremlin. One of the world's great powers--a country of some 200 nationalities stretching across a dozen time zones--had simply disintegrated, ending an epoch in world history. Now, for the first time, we are able to look back and assess the complete 75 year experiment with communism. Based on extensive research and a first-hand knowledge of the Soviet system, Soviet Politics: 1917-1991 offers an authoritative and lively history of the entire spectrum of Soviet politics, from the October Revolution and the rise of Lenin to the emergence of the Commonwealth of Independent States. McAuley ranges from the Revolution to the unprecedented crash industrialization and social mobility, to dictatorship and mass terror under Stalin, to conservative state control under Krushchev, Kosygin, and Brezhnev, and finally to the swift collapse of the state. The author offers a particularly stimulating analysis of the developments that brought an end to communist party rule and the breakup of the Soviet Union. She describes, for instance, how the 1989 elections undermined the Communist Party's assumption of unqualified popular support (Yeltsin, the bete noire of the Moscow party, was swept in, and Soloviev, a deputy member of the Politburo, who ran unopposed in Leningrad, failed to garner 50% of the vote). She shows how the Congress of that year, televised nationally, revealed to a wrapt nation a Party no longer solidly united behind one stand, where deputies openly criticized the government, the KGB, and the Afghan war. And she paints a striking portrait of Gorbachev trying to reconcile irreconcilable interests, to heal the rift between Democrats and Party conservatives, as the center began to unravel. By the end of 1991, the USSR was gone forever, with momentous and unpredictable consequences not only for the peoples of the former Soviet Union, but for the world as a whole. Soviet Politics helps readers make sense of the developments since 1985, showing how and why the system fell apart. It will interest anyone wanting a full understanding of current world events.

Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics

Author : Theodore H. Friedgut
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563244032
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics written by Theodore H. Friedgut and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) from the John Holmes Library collection.

Executive Power and Soviet Politics

Author : Eugene Huskey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315486555
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Executive Power and Soviet Politics written by Eugene Huskey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the behavioral revolution reached Communist studies more than 2 decades ago, Western scholarship has tended to ignore the powerful and unwieldy institutional structure of the Soviet government. Today, suddenly, it is clear that the dramatic political and legislative reforms of the Gorbachev years will remain incomplete as long as the issues of state bureaucratic power and executive prerogative are unresolved. This volume, brings together original studies of the Soviet executive under Gorbachev by specialists including Barbara Chotiner, Stephen Fortescue, Brnda Horrigan, Ellen Jones, Wayne Limberg, T.H. Rigby and Louise Shelley. Among the topics covered are the major economic, national security and law enforcement ministries, the presidency, the cabinet and questions of presidential-ministerial, presidential-presidential, legislative-executive and party-state relations.

Geopolitical Imagination

Author : Mikhail Suslov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838213610
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitical Imagination written by Mikhail Suslov and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s policies. Specifically, he analyzes such concepts as “Eurasianism,” “Holy Russia,” “Russian civilization,” “Russia as a continent,” “Novorossia,” and others. He demonstrates that these concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination, structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages, at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about Russia’s exclusion—imaginary or otherwise—from the processes of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilization, and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order, tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.

Contemporary Soviet Government

Author : Lloyd G. Churchward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780444000651
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Soviet Government written by Lloyd G. Churchward and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Soviet/post-Soviet Politics

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Beyond Sovietology

Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548479X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Sovietology written by Susan Gross Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - a product of the Soviet Domestic Politics workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council - marks an end and a new beginning. The end, of course, is that of Sovietology, now permanently "overtaken by events". The beginning encompasses not only a radical multiplication of subjects for analysis - the post-Soviet states - but also the arrival of a new generation of scholars entering the field at its turning point. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, they bring fresh contemporary social scientific questions and methods to an unprecedentedly accessible universe of diverse social groups and societies once subsumed under the Soviet rubric. Their work enriches not only post-Soviet studies but the entire range of comparativist work in the social sciences. Among the authors included here are Jane Dawson, Ellen Hamilton, Joel Hellman, Mark Saroyan, Joseph Schull and Michael Smith.

Ideology and Soviet Politics

Author : Alex Pravda
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333434499
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Soviet Politics written by Alex Pravda and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-07-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet politics and yet its development in recent years has received very little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist audience.

Postwar Soviet Politics

Author : Werner G. Hahn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501743392
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Postwar Soviet Politics written by Werner G. Hahn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years immediately following World War II, the Soviet Union witnessed a revival of tight Stalinist controls. Werner G. Hahn here explores the politics behind the USSR's rejection of moderation and seeming willingness to collaborate with the West, in favor of cold-war militancy abroad and inflexible dogmatism at home. Basing his work on scrupulous research in Soviet newspapers, journals, and books of the period, Hahn asserts that contrary to accepted opinion, there was vigorous debate between the Soviet conservatives and moderates in the early postwar period. In addition to documenting the events of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hahn discusses the impact of the moderates' defeat in 1948–49 not only on contemporary Soviet politics, but also on Soviet science, philosophy, and economic thought. Illuminating an era of crucial importance in Soviet history—the final years of Stalin's reign.—this book will interest historians, political scientists, and students of contemporary Soviet affairs.

Russian Politics Today

Author : Susanne A. Wengle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009165917
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Russian Politics Today written by Susanne A. Wengle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework. This innovative textbook explores core themes as well as path-breaking insights into the politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the environment.

In the Name of the Nation

Author : M. Laruelle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101232
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book In the Name of the Nation written by M. Laruelle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deconstructs the equation of nationalism with the extreme right in Russia. Nationalism now extends throughout all ofthe countryand can not be seen as a phenomenon confined to the margins of society. This study rejects the interpretation that understands Kremlin-backed patriotism as simply part of a fascist trend in Russia and as a rapprochement between the political authorities and the extreme right. A simplistic analysis of such a paradoxical phenomenon addresses neither the basic issue of social consensus nor that of the inherent relationship between national identity and citizenship.

Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms

Author : Robert T. Huber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315488477
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Perestroika Era Politics: The New Soviet Legislature and Gorbachev's Political Reforms written by Robert T. Huber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an evaluation of the new legislative politics in the Soviet Union. The contributors examine the uneven progress of electoral and constitutional reform, the composition, organisation, staffing and procedures of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet, the development of factions, movements and parties on the left, on the right, and of the nationalist bent, the path of executive-legislative relations and case studies of the role of the legislature on domestic and foreign policy realms. This book should prove of interest to students of Soviet politics, political parties, and legislative politics, as well as for anyone interested in the struggle of political ideas, forces, and institutions in the USSR today.

The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia

Author : Ann-Mari Sätre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351169424
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Poverty in Contemporary Russia written by Ann-Mari Sätre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of poverty and well-being in Russia. Increasing poverty rates during the 1990s were followed by greater attention to social policies in the 2000s and increased efforts to engage people in socially oriented NGOs and ‘encourage’ them to contribute to the fulfillment of social aims. What impact did these developments have on the prevalence of poverty in contemporary Russian society? Tracing continuities from the Soviet system alongside recent developments such as the falling price of oil, economic sanctions, and changes in directions of social policy, this book explores the impact of poverty, inequality and social programmes. The author examines the agency of people living in poverty and those engaged in social policy, using official statistics, survey data and interviews from four Russian regions to explain the reasons and consequences of poverty and people’s attempts to get out of it. The approach is based on institutional theory, complemented by Amartya Sen’s capability approach highlighting the importance of agency and an institutional framework as a means for change. A timely book that will be of interest to students of contemporary Russian politics as well as those engaged in social policy issues.