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Book Synopsis From Romanov to Gorbachev by : Peter Mantin
Download or read book From Romanov to Gorbachev written by Peter Mantin and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with photographs,sketches and maps. ; Primary source material - Speeches , writings and posters of the day.
Download or read book The Return written by Daniel Treisman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia has long been a source of puzzlement— and sometimes alarm—for Western observers. Since shaking off communism two decades ago, the country has seemed wobbly at best, thoroughly corrupt and threatening at worst. But in recent years, as noted scholar Daniel Treisman shows in this compelling account, Russia has re-emerged as a pivotal nation in world affairs. In The Return, Treisman cuts through the myths and misinformation, as well as ongoing academic and journalistic debates, to present a portrait of a strong and independent country that is returning to the international community on its own terms. Drawing on two decades of research, interviews, and insider observation, The Return provides the first comprehensive history of post-communist Russia. From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, Putin, and Medvedev, it traces the twists and turns of the country’s evolution, uncovering the causes behind Russia’s plunge into depression in the 1990s and resurgence since 2000. Rather than a nation frozen in ancient authoritarian traditions, as Russia is often portrayed, Treisman shows a society modernizing rapidly, with a government that, although less than democratic, is sensitive to public opinion but which has been repeatedly buffeted by economic forces—the collapse of Soviet planning, the gyrations of oil prices—that have alternately boosted and drained the leaders’ popularity. Knocked off balance once again by the global financial crisis, the Kremlin’s current bosses must now struggle to reignite the growth on which the stability of their regime depends. As Russia grapples with its economic difficulties, the West will have to come to terms with the new Russia. With its UN Security Council veto, thousands of atomic warheads, continental dimensions, and vast mineral resources, Moscow sits at the epicenter of the toughest challenges the world will confront in the next generation—from Islamic terrorism and nuclear proliferation to energy security and global warming. To enlist Russia’s cooperation in solving the problems of the twenty-first century, Western leaders will need to look beyond common misconceptions to see the country as it is rather than as it has often been imagined or depicted. Based on extensive research by an expert with intimate knowledge of the country, the book provides insight into the prospects for democracy in Russia, the challenges and opportunities of doing business there, the wars in Chechnya, and the motives behind Moscow’s foreign policy. The Return is the ultimate accounting of what Russia is today, how it got there, and where it’s going.
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy by : Seweryn Bialer
Download or read book Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy written by Seweryn Bialer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1988-06-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to Gorbachev written by Ron McKay and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin by : Archie Brown
Download or read book Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin written by Archie Brown and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes various aspects of the political leadership during the collapse of the Soviet Union and formation of a new Russia. Comparing the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin, the book reflects upon their goals, governing style, and sources of influence—as well as factors that influenced their activities and complicated them too. Contents Introduction Archie Brown Transformational Leaders Compared: Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin Archie Brown Evaluating Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders George W. Breslauer From Yeltsin to Putin: The Evolution of Presidential Power Lilia Shevtsova Political Leadership and the Center-Periphery Struggle: Putin's Administrative Reforms Eugene Huskey Conclusion Lilia Shevtsova
Book Synopsis Russia and the West by : Jerry F. Hough
Download or read book Russia and the West written by Jerry F. Hough and published by Touchstone Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russia's Dead End by : Andreĭ Anatolʹevich Kovalev
Download or read book Russia's Dead End written by Andreĭ Anatolʹevich Kovalev and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elite-level Soviet politics, privileged access to state secrets, knowledge about machinations inside the Kremlin--such is the environment in which Andrei A. Kovalev lived and worked. In this memoir of his time as a successful diplomat serving in various key capacities and as a member of Mikhail Gorbachev's staff, Kovalev reveals hard truths about his country as only a perceptive witness can do. In Russia's Dead End Kovalev shares his intimate knowledge of political activities behind the scenes at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kremlin before and after the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, including the Russia of Vladimir Putin. Kovalev analyzes Soviet efforts to comply with international human-rights obligations, the machinations of the KGB, and the link between corrupt oligarchs and state officials. He documents the fall of the USSR, the post-Soviet explosion of state terrorism and propaganda, and offers a nuanced historical explanation of the roots of Russia's contemporary crisis under Vladimir Putin. This insider's memoir provides a penetrating analysis of late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics that is pungent, pointed, witty, and accessible. It assesses the current dangerous status of Russian politics and society while illuminating the path to a more just and democratic future"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gorbachev written by Martin McCauley and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first major study of Gorbachev to be written in the light of his own uniquely revealing (though self-serving) memoirs, with their startlingly intimate view of Kremlin life. Martin McCauley, a leading authority on the Soviet era, uses these and other recent materials with an acute critical intelligence to provide both an objective account of what happened - and why - during the momentous period of Soviet reform, failure and collapse, and also an authoritative assessment of Gorbachev himself. Born in 1931 to a peasant family - his mother, a devout Orthodox Christian who died in 1995, never learned to read or write - Gorbachev became one of the architects of the late twentieth-century world. Himself a communist, he moved gradually towards social democracy, and in so doing dismantled the dictatorship that had held Russia in a vice for over 70 years. He effected this momentous change without civil war - in itself a breathtaking achievement. He was less successful elsewhere. He attempted to re-introduce elements of a market economy, with reform from above (perestroika) and reform from below (glasnost); but only accelerated Russia's economic decline. However, it was his failure to defuse the nationalist aspirations of Russia's subject peoples that eventually brought him down. Gorbachev's legacy to Russia has been decidedly mixed; but he nevertheless gave freedom to people who had not known it for three-quarters of a century. His wider reputation stands much higher, as befits the man who, more than anyone else, helped end the Cold War. But how much of what he achieved did he intend? How much of what he failed to achieve did he misjudge? These are questions which Martin McCauleyaddresses in this incisive study. It is a milestone in Soviet historiography; and - in its immediacy - as gripping as a Cold War thriller as it opens up the claustrophobic and intensely personal world of the Soviet leadership.
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's Russia by : Basile H. Kerblay
Download or read book Gorbachev's Russia written by Basile H. Kerblay and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translated from an unpublished French manuscript"--Verso t.p.
Book Synopsis Is Russia Reformable? by : Robert V Daniels
Download or read book Is Russia Reformable? written by Robert V Daniels and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1988-09-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union by : John Paxton
Download or read book Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union written by John Paxton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work surveys the leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union- from Michael, the first Romanov tsar in 1613, through the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the present day President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Chronologically arranged, these biographies paint a thorough yet succinct portrait of thirty leaders including discussion about the family and education of each ruler, important legislation, events, and wars under each leader's rule; and each leader's achievements and impact on Russia or the Soviet Union.
Book Synopsis On My Country and the World by : Mikhail Gorbachev
Download or read book On My Country and the World written by Mikhail Gorbachev and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.
Download or read book Russia written by Suzanne Murdico and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the history and culture of Russia and its people, including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry and government.
Book Synopsis A Traveller's History of Russia and the U. S. S. R. by : Peter Neville
Download or read book A Traveller's History of Russia and the U. S. S. R. written by Peter Neville and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Brezhnev To Gorbachev by : Baruch A. Hazan
Download or read book From Brezhnev To Gorbachev written by Baruch A. Hazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1982 to 1985, the period on which this book focuses, the Soviet Union was governed by a succession of ailing old men—Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko—who, supported by an equally elderly Politburo, were often physically incapable of controlling and directing the bureaucratic state machine and party organization. This unprecedented situation precipitated a secret and bitter power struggle within the top Soviet leadership between two main factions: the Chernenko apparatchiks, who had risen to power under Brezhnev and owed their positions to him; and the supporters of Andropov, including the younger, more dynamic, and power-hungry members of the party elite, who had been advocating fairly bold reforms to deal with the grave social and economic problems facing the USSR. Dr. Hazan provides a detailed analysis of this hidden power struggle as he examines the final years of Brezhnev's reign and the brief ascendancies of Andropov and Chernenko. These rapid changes led to the demise of the old guard in the Politburo and the emergence of a new breed of leader in Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the final consolidation of his power at the 27th CPSU Congress. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and using vivid examples of how the factions exploited the gigantic propaganda machine of the Soviet mass media, the author looks behind the Kremlin's walls to explore the essence of Soviet politics. The book describes the power base of each of the recent Soviet leaders and analyzes the steps they took to consolidate their positions and tighten controls over the bureaucracy and the military.
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy by : Seweryn Bialer
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.
Book Synopsis Japanese-Russian Relations Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin by : Hiroshi Kimura
Download or read book Japanese-Russian Relations Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin written by Hiroshi Kimura and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the stalemate in Japanese-Russian relations persisted through the end of the Cold War and Moscow's weakening control over its far eastern territories? In this volume Kimura continues his comprehensive analysis of Russia and Japan's strained and unstable relations to the present day.
