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Author : MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE SOVIET ECONOMY: Myth and Reality written by MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Josef Joffe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404494
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies written by Josef Joffe and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While it may be catnip for the media to play up America as a has-been, Josef Joffe, a ... German commentator and Stanford University academic, [proposes] that Declinism is not a cold-eyed diagnosis but a device in the style of the ancient prophets ... Gloom is a prophecy that must be believed so that it will turn out wrong. Joffe [posits that] 'economic miracles' that propelled the rising tide of challengers flounder against their own limits. Hardly confined to Europe alone, Declinism has also been an especially nifty career builder for American politicians, among them Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan, who all rode into the White House by hawking 'the end is near'"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Abram Bergson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000882055
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Economy written by Abram Bergson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR’s economy. It looks at the Soviet economy’s growth process at an advanced stage of development, and assesses how it would evolve in the period ahead. Various growth plans had made large advances to the state-planned economy, but by the 1980s this growth had slowed.
Author : Giuseppe Eusepi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786438046
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Public Debt written by Giuseppe Eusepi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, economists have witnessed with growing uneasiness their failure to explain the ballooning of public debt in most countries. This book provides an alternative orientation that explains why concepts of public debt that are relevant for authoritarian regimes are not relevant for democratic regimes. Using methodological individualism and micro-economics, this book overcomes flaws inherent in the standard macro approach, according to which governments manipulate public debt to promote systemic stability. This unique analysis is grounded in the writings of Antonio de Viti de Marco, injecting current analytical contributions and formulations into the framework to offer a forthright insight into public debt and political economy.
Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199238480
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Lovell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Author : Paul R. Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533676
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (336 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Stalinism written by Paul R. Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.
Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book USSR: Strategic Survey written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene K. Keefe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Area Handbook for the Soviet Union written by Eugene K. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of the American University.
Author : Bruce F. Pauley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118765923
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini written by Bruce F. Pauley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century presents an innovative comparison of the origins, development, and demise of the three forms of totalitarianism that emerged in twentieth-century Europe. Represents the only book that systematically compares all three infamous dictators of the twentieth century Provides the latest scholarship on the wartime goals of Hitler and Stalin as well as new information on the disintegration of the Soviet empire Compares the early lives of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, their ideologies, rise to and consolidation of power, and the organization and workings of their dictatorships Features topics organized by themes rather than strictly chronologically Includes a wealth of visual material to support the text, as well as a thorough Bibliographical Essay compiled by the author
Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book External Research written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book 1975 NASA Authorization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Barkley Rosser
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262182348
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy written by John Barkley Rosser and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of an innovative undergraduate textbook in Comparative Economic Systems that goes beyond the traditional dichotomies.
Author : Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book National Defense Resources Conference written by Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Presentation Outlines and Reading List written by Industrial College of the Armed Forces (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Heywood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143329
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Engineer of Revolutionary Russia written by Anthony Heywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov's importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin's generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country's best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific missions to the West during the early years of the Revolution. Falling from political favour during an assignment in Germany (1923-1927), he achieved notoriety in Russia as a 'non-returner' by apparently declining to return home. Thereby escaping probable arrest and execution, he began a new life abroad (1927-1952) which included a research post at the California Institute of Technology in 1929-1930, collaborative projects with the famous physicist P.L. Kapitsa in Cambridge, a long-time association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, and work for the British War Office during the Second World War. From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this study reveals Lomonosov's extraordinary life. Drawing on a wide variety of official Russian sources, as well as Lomonosov's own diaries and memoirs, a vivid portrait of his life is presented, offering a better understanding of how science, technology and politics interacted in early-twentieth-century Russia.
Author : Donald W. Engels
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226208701
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Roman Corinth written by Donald W. Engels and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-05-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second century A.D., Corinth was the largest city in Roman Greece. A center of learning, culture, and commerce, it served as the capital of the senatorial province of Achaea and was the focus of apostle Paul's missionary activity. Donald Engels's important revisionist study of this ancient urban area is at once a detailed history of the Roman colony and a provocative socioeconomic analysis. With Corinth as an exemplar, Engels challenges the widely held view that large classical cities were consumer cities, innocent of the market forces that shape modern economies. Instead, he presents an alternative model—the "service city." Examining a wealth of archaelogical and literary evidence in light of central place theory, and using sound statistical techniques, Engels reconstructs the human geography of the Corinthia, including an estimate of the population. He shows that—given the amount of cultivatable land—rents and taxes levied onthe countryside could not have supported a highly populated city like Corinth. Neither could its inhabitants have supported themselves directly by farming. Rather, the city constituted a thriving market for domestic, regional, and overseas raw materials, agricultural products, and manufactured goods, at the same time satisfying the needs of those who plied the various land and sea routes that converged there. Corinth provided key governmental and judicial services to the province of Achaea, and its religious festivals, temples, and monuments attracted numerous visitors from all corners of the Roman world. In accounting for the large portion of residents who participated in these various areas outside of the traditional consumer model, Engels reveals the depth and sophistication of the economics of ancient cities. Roman Corinth is a much-needed critique of the currently dominant approach of ancient urbanism. It will be of crucial interest to scholars and students in classics, ancient history, and urban studies.
