Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136439
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Book Synopsis Destination in Doubt by : Stephen Lovell
Download or read book Destination in Doubt written by Stephen Lovell and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist Party, the borders of the state, even the definition of the Russian 'nation' itself. Russians also faced plummeting living standards and chronic uncertainty. In a matter of months, Russia was apparently demoted from 'evil empire' to despondent poor relation of the prosperous West. Yet the country also seemed alarmingly open to all manner of political outcomes. Russia deserves our attention now as much as ever, because it raises so many of the big questions about how societies operate in the modern world.