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Author : Bertram Silverman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315500812
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book New Rich, New Poor, New Russia written by Bertram Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertram Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315481111
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Winners and Losers on the Russian Road to Capitalism written by Bertram Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to explain many Russians' ambivalence to recent changes, this work examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of reform, its impact on the socioeconomic structure of the population, and the ways in which these changes violate social perceptions of equity and fairness.
Author : Bertram Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315500795
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book New Rich, New Poor, New Russia written by Bertram Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now expanded to cover the consequences of Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this book focuses on the social consequences of a modern-day great depression. The text examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of Russia's leap into capitalism. The topics covered include: the emergence of the "new poor"; the recruitment of a business elite; the changing social and economic status of women; and the impact of marketization on employment. The study draws on a range of statistics and survey research data to present a portrait of the lives and circumstances of comtemporary Russians.
Author : Stephen Wegren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135018308
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Rural Inequality in Divided Russia written by Stephen Wegren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines economic and political polarisation in post-Soviet Russia, and in particular analyses the development of rural inequality. It discusses how rural inequality has developed in post-Soviet Russia, and how it differs from the Soviet period, and goes on to look at the factors that affect rural stratification and inequality, using human and social capital, profession, gender, and village location as independent variables. The book uses survey data from rural households and fieldwork in Russia in order to highlight the multiplicity of divisions that act as fault lines in contemporary rural Russia.
Author : Stephen K. Wegren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000178870
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Russia's Food Revolution written by Stephen K. Wegren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the state regulates food; considers changes in patterns of food trade interactions with other states; and discusses how all this and changing habits of consumption have impacted consumers. It contrasts the grim food situation of 1980s and 1990s with the much better food situation that prevails at present and sets the food revolution in the context of the wider consumer revolution, which has affected fashion, consumer electronics, and other sectors of the economy.
Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136439
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
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.
Author : Stephen White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521587372
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Russia's New Politics written by Stephen White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the Bolshevik revolution defined the early politics of the 20th century, the transition from communist rule is the landmark event of its final years. In this important 1999 textbook, based on a wealth of references including interview and survey material, Stephen White offers a full, discriminating account of the dramatic process of change in what is still the world's largest country. After an early chapter examining the Gorbachev legacy, the book analyses the electoral process, the powerful presidency, and the intractable problem of economic reform. Later chapters cover social divisions, public opinion, and foreign policy, and a final chapter places the Russian experience within the wider context of democratisation. Clearly written, with numerous figures and illustrations, this book takes up Russia's story from the author's best-selling After Gorbachev to provide an unrivalled analysis of the politics of change in what is now the world's largest postcommunist society.
Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000787265
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society written by Graeme Gill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the highly respected Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society both provides a broad overview of the area and highlights cutting-edge research into the country. Through balanced theoretical and empirical investigation, each chapter examines both the Russian experience and the existing literature, identifies and exemplifies research trends, and highlights the richness of experience, history, and continued challenges inherent to this enduringly fascinating and shifting polity. Politically, economically, and socially, Russia has one of the most interesting development trajectories of any major country. This Handbook answers questions about democratic transition, the relationship between the market and democracy, stability and authoritarian politics, the development of civil society, the role of crime and corruption, the development of a market economy, and Russia’s likely place in the emerging new world order. Providing a comprehensive resource for scholars, students, and policy makers alike, this book is an essential contribution to the study of Russian studies/politics, Eastern European studies/politics, and International Relations.
Author : Leo McCann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134348363
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Russian Transformations written by Leo McCann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary Russian socio-economic development, and explores the degree to which Russian experiences can be incorporated into current social science theories.
Author : Stephen K. Wegren
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156405
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Land Reform in Russia written by Stephen K. Wegren and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russia's land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and agricultural production. The aim of Russian land reform for the past thirty years--to undo the collectivization of the Soviet era and encourage public ownership--has been largely unsuccessful. To understand this failure, Stephen Wegren examines contemporary land reform policies in terms of legislation, institutional structure, and human behavior. Using extensive survey data, he analyzes household behaviors in regard to land ownership and usage based on socioeconomic status, family size, demographic distribution, and regional differences. Wegren's study is important and timely, as Russian land reform will have a profound effect on Russia's ability to compete in an era of globalization.
Author : Marie V. Lane
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590332986
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (329 download)
Download or read book World Poverty written by Marie V. Lane and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Poverty A Bibliography With Indexes
Author : Allen C. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139444248
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (442 download)
Download or read book How Russia Is Not Ruled written by Allen C. Lynch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state remains as important to Russia's prospects as ever. This is so not only because, as in any society, an effectively functioning state administration is necessary to the proper functioning of a complex economy and legal system, but also because, in Russian circumstances, factors of economic geography tend to increase costs of production compared to the rest of the world. These mutually reinforcing factors include: the extreme severity of the climate, the immense distances to be covered, the dislocation between (European) population centers and (Siberian) natural resource centers, and the inevitable predominance of relatively costly land transportation over sea-borne transportation. As a result, it is questionable whether Russia can exist as a world civilization under predominantly liberal economic circumstances: in a unified liberal global capital market, large-scale private direct capital investment will not be directed to massive, outdoor infrastructure projects typical of state investment in the Soviet period.
Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444351591
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Shadow of War written by Stephen Lovell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first century Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for insights that are missed in chronological histories Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps and illustrations.
Author : Bruno S. Sergi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427723
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Misinterpreting Modern Russia written by Bruno S. Sergi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President Vladimir Putin ascended to the Kremlin at the end of the 1990s, he had to struggle with the after-effects of Boris Yeltsin's political agenda: outrageous corruption, endless social injustice, and deeply entrenched interests dating back to Gorbachev and beyond. From the outset, Putin saw his task as leveling out the political scenery. Discontent had been building up among ordinary Russians on these consequences of the dramatically unstable 1990s. Stabilization of the political system and cleaning up the widespread corruption were Putin's aims, and the Russian people supported him wholeheartedly. Many observers in the West were quick to condemn Putin and depict him as an authoritarian, dishonest leader who was still linked to the KGB. When asked why Russians were supporting the new Kremlin, many experts explained that it was a paradox that combined the country's supposed history of tyranny and its people's inclination towards it. These explanations shaped the West's understanding of modern Russia and they appear to be unshakeable in cultural circles today. Bruno Sergi argues, in this new study, that the way to know the complete story behind how Putin's presidency has been viewed in Russia, is to examine closely the hard realities that conditioned Putin's policies and responses. Misinterpreting Modern Russia: Western Views of Putin and his Presidency looks beyond the stereotypes to the hard logic of the 1990s, and asks a range of provocative questions about the disintegration of the old Soviet empire and the extraordinary riches that have caused so much opportunity and turmoil in recent years.
Author : Anne White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134302932
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Small-Town Russia written by Anne White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
Author : Ann-Mari Sätre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317340493
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Attitudes, Poverty and Agency in Russia and Ukraine written by Ann-Mari Sätre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main ideas behind this book was to trace continuities from the Soviet time to post-Soviet Russia. There are many similarities between Russia and Ukraine, indicating such a continuation. Russia and Ukraine had a lot in common in terms of culture, language and history, partly also because of their common origin. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, the two independent countries chose different routes of development. This makes it possible to distinguish between the effects of politics/reforms on the one hand, and the impacts from the Soviet system on the other. After some more or less chaotic development paths in the 1990s, showing clear differences between the two countries, and before the contemporary conflict broke out in Eastern Ukraine (2013), they had once again more similarities in terms of political leadership and policies in general. The chapters in this book focus on Ukraine and on two regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Archangelsk. Contributors look at attitudes towards poverty and poor people; strategies of the poor; and policies against poverty. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Author : Susanne A. Wengle
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299335402
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Black Earth, White Bread written by Susanne A. Wengle and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: setting the table -- Governance, or, How to solve the grain problem? -- Production -- Consumption, or, The Perestroika of the quotidian -- Nature -- Conclusion: vulnerabilities.
