Opening the Soviet System
Author | : George Soros |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Capitalists and Financiers |
ISBN | : 9780297820550 |
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Author | : George Soros |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Capitalists and Financiers |
ISBN | : 9780297820550 |
Author | : David Kotz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135104352 |
Controversially this book argues that the ruling party-state elite in the USSR itself moved to dismantle the old system. Topics discussed include: * the beginnings of economic decline in 1975 * Gorbachev's efforts to democratize and decentralize * the complex political battle through which the coalition favouring capitalism took power * the flaws in economic policies intended to rapidly build capitalism * the surprising resurgence of Communism. Research includes interviews with over 50 former Soviet government and Communist party leaders, policy advisors, new private businessmen, trade union leaders and intellectuals.
Author | : Moshe Lewin |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The classic study of Russian society and government. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : John Newbold Hazard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vladimir Shlapentokh |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781563244711 |
This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-Soviet decade. Without overlooking the USSR's repressive character, the author treats it as a "normal" system that employed socialist and nationalist ideologies.
Author | : Jack Matlock |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2005-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812974891 |
“[Matlock’s] account of Reagan’s achievement as the nation’s diplomat in chief is a public service.”—The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . authoritative . . . a detailed and reliable narrative that future historians will be able to draw on to illuminate one of the most dramatic periods in modern history.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In Reagan and Gorbachev, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. Working from his own papers, recent interviews with major figures, and unparalleled access to the best and latest sources, Matlock offers an insider’s perspective on a diplomatic campaign far more sophisticated than previously thought, waged by two leaders of surpassing vision. Matlock details how Reagan privately pursued improved U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations even while engaging in public saber rattling. When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past.
Author | : Raymond Augustine Bauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
No detailed description available for "How the Soviet System Works".
Author | : Jerry F. Hough |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Soviet specialist Jerry Hough offers a preliminary assessment of the foreign policy implications of Mikhail Gorbachev's recent program of economic reform.
Author | : Diane P. Koenker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781780393803 |
Author | : David Kotz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135992053 |
Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point. Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and democracy. The pursuit of Western-endorsed policies of privatization, liberalization and fiscal austerity have brought Russia growing crime and corruption, a distorted economy and a trend toward authoritarian government. In their 1996 book - Revolution from Above - David Kotz and Fred Weir shed light on the underlying reasons for the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union and the severe economic and political problems of the immediate post-Soviet period in Russia. In this new book, the authors bring the story up-to-date, showing how continuing misguided policies have entrenched a group of super-rich oligarchs, in alliance with an all-powerful presidency, while further undermining Russia's economic potential. New topics include the origins of the oligarchs, the deep penetration of crime and corruption in Russian society, the financial crisis that almost destroyed the regime, the mixed blessing of an oil-dependent economy, the atrophy of democracy in the Yeltsin years, and the recentralization of political power in the Kremlin under President Putin.