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Author : Pat Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243636778
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Russia Without Illusions written by Pat Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Russia Without Illusions written by Pat Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Sloan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265248171
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Russia Without Illusions (Classic Reprint) written by Pat Sloan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russia Without Illusions We naturally had our fair share of the discomforts and unpleasant nesses of that period. We saw, as those educators in Moscow who counseled us where to go said they wanted us to see, the worst as well as the best of Soviet life. And we also saw a fair sample of what lies in between. To read Mr. Sloan's descriptions and judgments is to vividly live over again the experiences of that period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ellen Propper Mickiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199977836
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book No Illusions written by Ellen Propper Mickiewicz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the next generation of Russian leaders be like? No Illusions provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window into the mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics, business, and economics.
Author : Patrick Alan SLOAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Russia Without Illusions, Etc written by Patrick Alan SLOAN and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena Zubkova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317460588
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Russia After the War written by Elena Zubkova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This is a sweeping history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw by one of Russia's respected younger historians. Drawing on the resources of newly opened archives as well as the recent outpouring of published diaries and memoirs, Elena Zubkova presents a richly detailed portrayal of the basic conditions of people's lives in Soviet Russia from 1945 to 1957. She brings out the dynamics of postwar popular expectations and the cultural stirrings set in motion by the wartime experience versus the regime's determination to reassert command over territories and populations and the mechanisms of repression. Her interpretation of the period establishes the context for the liberalizing and reformist impulses that surfaced in the post-Stalin succession struggle, characterizing what would be the formative period for a future generation of leaders: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their contemporaries.
Author : Ellen Mickiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199977844
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book No Illusions written by Ellen Mickiewicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene? How will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating tables, political and otherwise? No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window into the mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics, business, and economics. In this book, one hundred and eight students in Russia's three most elite universities, the training grounds for the nation's leadership, reveal their thoughts on international relations, neighboring countries, domestic and international media, democratic movements, and their government in focus groups; they speak candidly, passionately, and sometimes sardonically about America. As well, Ellen Mickiewicz, one of the world's foremost experts on Russian media, politics, and culture, shows how their total immersion in the world of the internet-an immersion that sets them apart from the current generation of Russian leadership and much of the rest of the country-frames the way that they think and affects their trust in their leaders, the media, and their colleagues. Their worldviews are complex and often contradictory, reflecting complicated personalities that are adaptable yet also subject to much internal strife and "splintering." For example, while many of them are planning to go into politics, they express ambivalence about voting; they have favorable views of democracy, but not of the American model; they are shrewd critics of government propaganda and yet have clearly absorbed residue of Cold War defensiveness. Mickiewicz also looks at the nation's massive protests and nascent political movements to show how they came about and to consider what promise they might hold even in times of narrowing opportunities. She profiles several of Russia's up-and-coming leaders, including charismatic and controversial activist and politician Aleksei Navalny, who, even during his legal trials and house arrest, remains the face of the opposition to the Putin regime. As this book shows, the next generation of Russian leadership promises to hold a rather different worldview from that of the current one, yet it is not a worldview that readily embraces American democracy. No Illusions is a thought-provoking and often surprising glimpse into the future of Russia's foreign relations.
Author : Elena Zubkova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131746057X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Russia After the War written by Elena Zubkova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This is a sweeping history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw by one of Russia's respected younger historians. Drawing on the resources of newly opened archives as well as the recent outpouring of published diaries and memoirs, Elena Zubkova presents a richly detailed portrayal of the basic conditions of people's lives in Soviet Russia from 1945 to 1957. She brings out the dynamics of postwar popular expectations and the cultural stirrings set in motion by the wartime experience versus the regime's determination to reassert command over territories and populations and the mechanisms of repression. Her interpretation of the period establishes the context for the liberalizing and reformist impulses that surfaced in the post-Stalin succession struggle, characterizing what would be the formative period for a future generation of leaders: Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their contemporaries.
Author : Jack F. Matlock
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155964
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Superpower Illusions written by Jack F. Matlock and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This persuasive, occasionally provocative book corrects a number of pervasive myths about the Cold War”—from the former U.S. ambassador to the USSR (Publishers Weekly). In Superpower Illusions, Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist Party rule in the Soviet Union and that the Cold War ended in a negotiated settlement that benefited both sides. He posits that the end of the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American power; with the removal of the Soviet threat, allies were less willing to accept American protection and leadership that seemed increasingly to ignore their interests. Matlock shows how, during the Clinton and particularly the Bush-Cheney administrations, the belief that the United States had defeated the Soviet Union led to a conviction that it did not need allies, international organizations, or diplomacy, but could dominate and change the world by using its military power unilaterally. Superpower Illusions is “a truly remarkable book, both wise and provocative, telling a sad yet instructive story of how the United States failed to exploit a triumph in the Cold War to build a new international order reflecting U.S. interests and principles” (Dimitri Simes, President and CEO, The Center for the National Interest). “A well written, clearly reasoned and thoroughly informed tour of the past half century of American diplomacy—including the roots of its successes and failures—led by a superbly qualified participant. A brilliant book.”—Sidney Drell, Stanford University
Author : Leonard Schapiro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349054380
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Worker written by Leonard Schapiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dmitry Gel'man, Vladimir Marganiya, Otar Travin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838214218
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Russian Path written by Dmitry Gel'man, Vladimir Marganiya, Otar Travin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politico-economic reforms launched during the late twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia have led to contradictory and ambiguous results. The new economic environment and mode of governance that emerged have been subjected to serious criticism. What were the causes of these developments? Were they unavoidable for Russia due to specific factors grounded in the country’s previous experiences? Or were they an intended result of actions taken by the leaders of the country during the last few decades? The authors of this book share neither a deterministic approach, which implies that Russia is bound to fail because of the nature of its economic and political evolution, nor a voluntarist approach, which implies that these failures were caused only by the incompetence and/or malicious intentions of its leaders. Instead, this study offers a different framework for the analysis of political and economic developments in present-day Russia. It is based on four ‘i’s—ideas, interests, institutions, and illusions.
Author : Anders Aslund
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030024486X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Russia's Crony Capitalism written by Anders Aslund and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0525574476
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Road to Unfreedom written by Timothy Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States. Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.
Author : Andrew Moravcsik
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761831280
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Europe Without Illusions written by Andrew Moravcsik and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Europe Without Illusions : The Paul-Henri Spaak Lectures, 1994-1999 by Moravcsik, Andrew Terms of Use Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Executive Committee, 2003-2004 p. vii The Paul-Henri Spaak Lectures-1994-1999 p. x Foreword Jorge I. Dominguez p. xi Preface Frank Boas p. xiv Part I Editor's Introduction Europe without Illusions Andrew Moravcsik p. 3 Part II The Paul-Henri Spaak Lectures, 1994-1999 1 The Disappointing Partnership between British Governments and Europe: Why the Paul-Henri Spaak Tradition Rarely Embraces London Right Honorable Lord Roy Jenkins p. 47 2 The Global Challenge: Opportunities and Choices in the Multilateral Trading System Ambassador Renato Ruggiero p. 61 3 From Europe to EUrope: A Story of Hope, Trial and Error Ralf Dahrendorf p. 77 4 The New Europe: How to Overcome Forty Years of Division Uffe Ellemann-Jensen p. 91 5 Europe and the Balkans: The Role of Greece George Papandreou p. 103 Part III Conference Proceedings 6 Transatlantic Relations One Year after September 11 p. 121 Conference Participants p. 191 Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service. Summary Europe Without Illusions : The Paul-Henri Spaak Lectures, 1994-1999 by Moravcsik, Andrew Terms of use Co-published with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, this critical assessment of European Union developments since 1994 combines the texts of five lectures presented at Harvard, an analysis of the EU by Moravcsik (politics, EU program, Princeton) and the proceedings of the 2002 Harvard-Spaack Lecture Conference. Moravcsik's introductory paper, "Europe Without Illusions," reflects the clear-sighted approach taken by the lectures, which discuss the partnership between British governments and Europe, multilateral trading, trial and error in the EU, overcoming divisions, and the role of Greece in the Balkans. The text lacks an index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service.
Author : Charles Gati
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Failed Illusions written by Charles Gati and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting new look at a key event of the Cold War, Failed Illusions fundamentally modifies our picture of what happened during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Now, fifty years later, Charles Gati challenges the simplicity of this David and Goliath story in his new history of the revolt.
Author : Gregory Feifer
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455509655
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Russians written by Gregory Feifer and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today. Russians explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his decade as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions by showing that much of what appears inexplicable about the country is logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Traversing the world's largest country from the violent North Caucasus to Arctic Siberia, Feifer conducted hundreds of intimate conversations about everything from sex and vodka to Russia's complex relationship with the world. From fabulously wealthy oligarchs to the destitute elderly babushki who beg in Moscow's streets, he tells the story of a society bursting with vitality under a leadership rooted in tradition and often on the edge of collapse despite its authoritarian power. Feifer also draws on formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture to shed much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during, and after communism. Woven throughout is an intimate, first-person account of his family history, from his Russian mother's coming of age among Moscow's bohemian artistic elite to his American father's harrowing vodka-fueled run-ins with the KGB. What emerges is a rare portrait of a unique land of extremes whose forbidding geography, merciless climate, and crushing corruption has nevertheless produced some of the world's greatest art and some of its most remarkable scientific advances. Russians is an expertly observed, gripping profile of a people who will continue challenging the West for the foreseeable future.
Author : Jan Matti Dollbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197644139
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Navalny written by Jan Matti Dollbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport control set the stage for an explosive showdown with Vladimir Putin. But Navalny means very different things to different people. To some, he is a democratic hero. To others, he is betraying the Motherland. To others still, he is a dangerous nationalist. This book explores the many dimensions of Navalny's political life, from his pioneering anti-corruption investigations to his ideas and leadership of a political movement. It also looks at how his activities and the Kremlin's strategies have shaped one another. Navalny makes sense of this divisive character, revealing the contradictions of a man who is the second most important political figure in Russia--even when behind bars. In order to understand modern Russia, you need to understand Alexei Navalny.
