Political Culture And Leadership In Soviet Russia

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393957983
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia written by Robert C. Tucker and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1987 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding new book lays bare the fundamental concepts needed to structure a cultural perspective on Soviet politics and history. The cultural approach is combined in it with a focus on the roles that leaders have played in the political process and in cultural change. In Robert C. Tucker's interpretation, the Soviet political culture arose under Lenin's aegis as a "belief culture." The book traces its further development, from the post-Lenin 1920s to Stalin's violent revolution from above of the 1930s, and from Khrushchev's failed post-Stalin reform effort to the "crisis of belief" that came about under Brezhnev's conservative administration of the later 1960s and 1970s. Against this background, the book examines in depth and detail the ongoing fight under Gorbachev's leadership to reform the Soviet political culture and revive the citizens' belief in the socialist project. Its up-to-date analysis of current changes in the USSR is based in part on the author's firsthand observation as an exchange scholar in Moscow in late 1986.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393024890
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia written by Robert C. Tucker and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at cultural changes in Russia, analyzes culture in social movements, and suggests possible results of Gorbachev's reforms

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia written by Robert C. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Sergeyev
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782543497
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Road to Democracy written by Victor Sergeyev and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia's Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why the Congress of People's Deputies, and the other newly elected institutions founded under perestroika, not only failed to prevent, but also seemed to speed up and provoke, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. By studying the early history of the Congress, the book seeks insights on the prospects for democracy in Russia. Following an inquiry into the roots of Soviet political culture and the implications for future representative institutions, the book then examines the genesis of the Congress of People's Deputies and attempts a hermeneutical reconstruction of the deputies' models of social reality, as expressed in the texts of their parliamentary debates. The authors argue that the adoption of the concept of sobornost - a belief in society's organic unity - as the basic model for this institution proved utterly inadequate to the challenges the country faced. Including substantial new source material which is being made available in English for the first time, Russia's Road to Democracy presents an in-depth analysis with conclusions that contradict the hitherto prevailing theoretical assumptions.

Author : Alex Pravda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349193356
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Soviet Politics written by Alex Pravda and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet politics and yet its development in recent years has received very little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist audience.

Author : Alexander Dallin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742567559
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of History written by Alexander Dallin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Soviet and Russian history and politics, The Uses of History brings together the classic essays of renowned scholar Alexander Dallin. The author provides insightful analysis and nuanced interpretations of such key--and controversial--issues as the domestic sources of Soviet foreign policy, Stalin's leadership in World War II, U.S.-Russian relations in the Reagan era, the causes of USSR's collapse, and the disappointments of Russia's post-Soviet evolution. Dallin rejects single-factor explanations for Soviet and Russian policies, instead examining the complex interplay of internal and external conditions, institutions, and individual leadership. All readers interested in Soviet and post-Soviet history will find this collection a stimulating and deeply knowledgeable resource.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366679
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on Russia from several academic fields, the book offers case studies on the vicissitudes of cultural policies, political ideologies and imperial visions, on memory politics on the grassroot as well as official levels, and on the links between political and national imaginaries and popular culture in fields as diverse as fashion design and pro-natalist advertising. Contributors are Niklas Bernsand, Lena Jonson, Ekaterina Kalinina, Natalija Majsova, Olga Malinova, Alena Minchenia, Elena Morenkova-Perrier, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tomas Sniegon, Igor Torbakov, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, and Yuliya Yurchuk.

Author : J. Alexander
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230507913
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Culture in Post-Communist Russia written by J. Alexander and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a unique qualitative approach to studying Russian political culture, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the attitudes and activities of residents in two provincial capitals, Syktyvkar and Kirov. It shows evidence of underlying democracy in popular opinions. It also finds an authoritarian side that is being strengthened by the ongoing crisis of Russia's transition. In entering a controversial subject area, the author directs a critical eye toward the contemporary research on Russian political culture.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826210234
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics as Leadership written by Robert C. Tucker and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert C. Tucker begins this invaluable book with an analytical look at politics, leadership, and the effect each has on the other. Aligning himself with Plato's view of politics as leadership, Tucker argues that politics is more usefully defined from this perspective than from the more familiar stance of the exercise of power. He maintains leaders must define collective problems, prescribe actions or policies, and finally seek support for their diagnoses and policy prescriptions. Tucker contends that political science must take account not only of leadership by those in state authority, but also of sociopolitical movements for change as vehicles of attempted leadership of political communities. Dividing such movements into those for reform and those for revolution, he illustrates this distinction with examples, including Martin Luther King Jr. as a reform leader and Lenin as a revolutionary one. Finally, Tucker raises a central question of his study: how can leadership save humankind from itself in the troubled world of today? In an insightful and moving discussion of what he calls the "crisis syndrome," Tucker analyzes problems such as population growth, resource depletion, and environmental degradation with respect to leadership. He argues that the current political process has focused on the immediate present while ignoring crises with far-reaching implications that require tough solutions. In the epilogue to this revised edition, Tucker draws on his expertise as a Russian specialist, extending the book's discussion of leadership by viewing Mikhail Gorbachev as a reform leader in Soviet Russia and Boris Yeltsin as a post-Soviet Russian leader. Tucker also readdresses the "crisis syndrome" by examining leaders' responses in the 1980s and early 1990s. Tucker's incisive reasoning, original insights, and commentary on the theory and practice of politics should make this revised edition of Politics as Leadership equally valuable and fascinating for experts in the field of political science and for concerned citizens.

Author : Robert V. Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429718659
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Russia Reformable? written by Robert V. Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is always full of surprises as it unfolds before us. The Soviet Union, for decades a seemingly frozen monolith of totalitarian rigidity and paranoid bellicosity, suddenly finds itself under a leader in the person of Mikhail Gorbachev who calls for "radical restructuring," openness," and even a "revolution." Outsiders justly wonder if this m