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Book Synopsis Soviet Society Today by : Michael Rywkin
Download or read book Soviet Society Today written by Michael Rywkin and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth tour of Soviet life and all its ethnic variations. Very helpful in understanding the changes that Gorbachev is trying to implement and the obstacles that must be overcome. Paper edition ($12.50) unseen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Soviet Union Today by : National Geographic Book Service
Download or read book The Soviet Union Today written by National Geographic Book Service and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Soviet Society by : Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Download or read book Women in Soviet Society written by Gail Warshofsky Lapidus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Soviet Society Under Gorbachev by : Maurice Friedberg
Download or read book Soviet Society Under Gorbachev written by Maurice Friedberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume assess key aspects of Soviet society and social policy under Gorbachev. It provides a survey of Soviet family problems and demographic change, economic and labour policy, the alcohol problem, nationality policy, and trends in culture and communications.
Download or read book The Last Empire written by Serhii Plokhy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal) On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades -- with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. Bush, in fact, was firmly committed to supporting Gorbachev as he attempted to hold together the USSR in the face of growing independence movements in its republics. Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months, providing invaluable insight into the origins of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the outset of the most dangerous crisis in East-West relations since the end of the Cold War. Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Choice Outstanding Academic Title BBC History Magazine Best History Book of the Year
Book Synopsis Understanding Soviet Society by : Michael Paul Sacks
Download or read book Understanding Soviet Society written by Michael Paul Sacks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Understanding Soviet Society has grown out of the authors’ experience as sociologists researching and teaching about the Soviet Union. Meant initially as an update to ‘Contemporary Soviet Society: Sociological Perspectives’ from 1980, this became a new volume because of the addition of six new authors, but also because of the major changes occurring in the USSR today that in many ways necessitated new approaches. It examines the fundamnetal institutions of Soviet society- from work and social welfare to politics and the Party- in order order to provide an objective understanding of the social underpinnigs of the Soviet System.
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Book Synopsis The Soviet Union Today by : American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, Inc
Download or read book The Soviet Union Today written by American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present by : Thomas P. Bernstein
Download or read book China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present written by Thomas P. Bernstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.
Book Synopsis The Soviet Union Today by : Petr Nikolaevich Malevskiĭ-Malevich
Download or read book The Soviet Union Today written by Petr Nikolaevich Malevskiĭ-Malevich and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Soviet Union is Governed by : Jerry F. Hough
Download or read book How the Soviet Union is Governed written by Jerry F. Hough and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new and thorough revision of a recognized classic whose first edition was hailed as the most authoritative account in English of the governing of the Soviet Union. Now, with historical material rearranged in chronological order, and with seven new chapters covering most of the last fifteen years, this edition brings the Soviet Union fully into the light of modern history and political science. The purposes of Fainsod's earlier editions were threefold: to explain the techniques used by the Bolsheviks and Stalin to gain control of the Russian political system; to describe the methods they employed to maintain command; and to speculate upon the likelihood oftheir continued control in the future. This new edition increases very substantially the attention paid to another aspect of the political process--how policy is formed, how the Soviet Union is governed. Whenever possible, Mr. Hough attempts to analyze the alignments and interrelationships between Soviet policy institutions. Moreover, he constantly moves beyond a description of these institutions to probe the way they work. Two chapters are devoted to the questions of individual political participation. Other chapters examine the internal organization of institutions and explore the ways in which the backgrounds of their officials influence their policy positions and alliances. The picture that emerges is an unprecedented account of the distribution of power in the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Soviet Samizdat written by Ann Komaromi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Ann Komaromi analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens. Dissidence has been dismissed as an elite phenomenon or as insignificant because it had little demonstrable impact on the Soviet regime. Komaromi challenges these views and demonstrates that the kind of imagination about self and community made possible by samizdat could be a powerful social force. She explains why participants in samizdat culture so often sought to divide "political" from "cultural" samizdat. Her study provides a controversial umbrella definition for all forms of samizdat in terms of truth-telling, arguing that the act is experienced as transformative by Soviet authors and readers. This argument will challenge scholars in the field to respond to contentions that go against the grain of both anthropological and postmodern accounts. Komaromi's combination of literary analysis, historical research, and sociological theory makes sense of the phenomenon of samizdat for readers today. Soviet Samizdat shows that samizdat was not simply a tool of opposition to a defunct regime. Instead, samizdat fostered informal communities of knowledge that foreshadowed a similar phenomenon of alternative perspectives challenging the authority of institutions around the world today.
Book Synopsis A Short History of Soviet Society by : V. Lelchuk
Download or read book A Short History of Soviet Society written by V. Lelchuk and published by University Press of the Pacific. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in the Soviet Union in 1971, the publishers advertising read: In October 1917 the working people of Russia, guided by Lenin, accomplished a socialist revolution. The peoples of economically backward Russia where, before the revolution, all power had belonged to the tsar, the bourgeoisie and the landowners, and where the downtrodden and illiterate peasants constituted the bulk of the population, overthrew the power of the oppressors and started building their own state - the Soviet Union. Over fifty years have passed since then. In this short period the Soviet Union has become a powerful socialist country with an up-to-date industry and conquests in outer space to its credit; it has become a country that knows no class antagonisms, no exploitation of man, racial hatred or social inequality. This book abounds in facts, names and figures. But it is not intended as a textbook or reference book. It is a narrative about the Soviet people, their life, work and struggles, a narrative about the people who carried out the revolution and built a socialist society, who upheld their freedom and independence in the Second World War and are now building communism confident in their ultimate success.
Book Synopsis Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change by : Robert Strayer
Download or read book Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change written by Robert Strayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century.
Book Synopsis Soviet Society Today by : Institut zur Erforschung der UdSSR.
Download or read book Soviet Society Today written by Institut zur Erforschung der UdSSR. and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black on Red written by Robert Robinson and published by Acropolis Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Robinson (1907?-1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union, where he spent 44 years after the government refused to give him an exit visa for return. Starting with a one-year contract by Russians to work in the Soviet Union, he twice renewed his contract. He became trapped by the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and the government's refusal to give him an exit visa. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering during the war. He finally left the Soviet Union in 1974 on an approved trip to Uganda, where he asked for and was given asylum. He married an African-American professor working there. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1976, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev by : Melanie Ilic
Download or read book Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev written by Melanie Ilic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, it offers an important new perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Book Synopsis Culture and the Media in the USSR Today by : Julian Graffy
Download or read book Culture and the Media in the USSR Today written by Julian Graffy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and media institutions are part of the Soviet establishment, yet also head the counter-culture which has gradually been taking shape in the Brezhnev era. Glasnost has introduced new intellectual or institutional upheavals which the contributors describe and analyze.
