Russia Transformed

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Transformed written by James H. Billington and published by New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billington examines the changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union over recent years and argues the necessity of the USA and other Western powers making positive economic, political, strategic and cultural responses to the new circumstances.

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461230
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Transformed written by Richard Rose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of communism Russia has undergone a treble transformation of its political, social and economic system. The government is an autocracy in which the Kremlin manages elections and administers the law to suit its own ends. It does not provide the democracy that most citizens desire. Given a contradiction between what Russians want and what they get, do they support their government and, if so, why? Using the New Russia Barometer - a unique set of public opinion surveys from 1992 to 2005 - this book shows that it is the passage of time that has been most important in developing support for the new regime. Although there remains great dissatisfaction with the regime's corruption, it has become accepted as a lesser evil to alternatives. The government appears stable today, but will be challenged by constitutional term limits forcing President Putin to leave office in 2008.

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538114879
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Russia written by Marlene Laruelle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic factors that drive Russia today. Russia has long inspired fear in the West, but as the authors argue, Russia is fearful as well. Three decades after the transformations launched by perestroika, multiple ghosts haunt both Russian elites and ordinary citizens, ranging from concerns about territorial challenges, societal transformations, and economic decline to worries about the country’s vulnerability to external intervention. Faced with a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War, a shockingly dynamic China, and former Soviet republics claiming their right to emancipate themselves from Moscow’s stranglehold, Russia is constantly questioning its identity, its development path, and its role on the international scene. The country hesitates between two strategies: take refuge in a new isolation and revive the old notion of being a “besieged fortress,” or replay the messianic myth of a Third Rome, the last bastion of Christian values in the face of a decadent West. Explaining Russia’s perspective, Marlene Laruelle and Jean Radvanyi offers a much-needed analysis that will help readers understand how the country deals with its domestic issues and how these influence Russian foreign policy.

Author : Tarja Långström
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789004137547
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformation in Russia and International Law written by Tarja Långström and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War the relationship between the internal constitution of a state and its international behaviour has been a subject of much scholarly interest. Assuming that this connection matters the author analyses the transformation from the USSR to the Russian Federation. Does a liberal Russia behave better than the non-liberal USSR? Are Russia's attitudes towards international law different than those of the former USSR? How much continuity is there and how much change has occurred in the scholarship of international law in Russia? How are Russia's treaties made and implemented? What is the role of international law in the Russian legal system? The author shows that international human rights played an important role in the Soviet "perestroika" and in the subsequent reforms in the Russian Federation. She argues that at the surface level the transformation in Russia has been remarkable, notably so with regard to the role of international law in the domestic legal system. Drawing from a wide range of materials - Soviet/Russian history, legislation, court cases and doctrinal writings - the book takes a cultural and historical perspective to analysis of legal change.

Author : Herbert J. Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295995816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation written by Herbert J. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Yeltsin is one of modern history's most dynamic and underappreciated figures. In this vivid, analytical masterwork, Herbert J. Ellison establishes Yeltsin as the principal leader and defender of Russia's democratic revolution - the very embodiment of Russia's fragile new liberties, including the evolving respect for the rule of law and private property as well as core freedoms of speech, religion, press, and political association. In 1987 President Mikhail Gorbachev expelled Boris Yeltsin from his team of reform politicians, but Yeltsin rebounded from this potentially devastating setback to become the leader of the Russian democratic movement. He created a new office of Russian president, to which he was elected; designed a democratic constitution for the Soviet Union that precipitated a coup attempt by traditionalist communist leaders; granted independence to the nations of the Soviet Union; and replaced Communist Party rule with democracy and the socialist economy with a market economy. In a short period, he had succeeded in becoming the first popularly elected leader in a thousand years of Russian history. He had blocked violent attempts at counter-revolution and overcome powerful resistance to his reform program. His achievements rank among the most extraordinary feats of political leadership in the twentieth century.

Author : Dmitriĭ Mikheev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Transformed written by Dmitriĭ Mikheev and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia Transformed dispels many misunderstandings and misconceptions about the new Russia, documenting the new Russian elite's struggles to create an entirely new economy and political system while dealing with wrenching changes in social conditions, such as inflation, crime, alcoholism, political corruption, and poverty.

Author : Aino Saarinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135020345
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Transformation in Russia written by Aino Saarinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th – 21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and, importantly, it shows them from the grassroots point of view, emphasizing the local factor. Chapters show the international and transnational aspects of Russian women’s agency of different spheres and different historical periods. The book goes on to raise new research questions such as the evaluation and comparison of Soviet society and contemporary Russia from the point of view of gender and women’s possibilities in society.

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910192
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Women written by Barbara Evans Clements and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women—and women's reactions to these efforts—have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field.

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511257162
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia Transformed written by Richard Rose and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piotr Dutkiewicz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814744125
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia written by Piotr Dutkiewicz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia, a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. This timely and important book of orginal essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both in its domestic policies and in its international relations. It also explores how global order—or disorder—may develop over the coming decades. Contributors include: Oleg Atkov, Timothy J. Colton, Georgi Derluguian, Mikhail K. Gorshkov, Leonid Grigoriev, Nur Kirabaev, Andrew C. Kuchins, Bobo Lo, Roderic Lyne, Vladimir Popov, Alexander Rahr, Richard Sakwa, Guzel Ulumbekova, Vladimir I. Yakunin, Rustem Zhangozha.