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Author | : Jessica Allina-Pisano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business |
ISBN | : 9780511354731 |
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Explains how the introduction of rural private property rights in Ukraine and Russia generated poverty.
Author | : Jessica Allina-Pisano |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2007-09-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521879385 |
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In the 1990s, as the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to dismantle the collective farm system that was created under Stalin and in the process privatize an expanse of farmland larger than Australia. Ordinary people were supposed to benefit from the reform, but local government leaders quietly rebelled against it. The end result was the dispossession of millions of rural people. This is the first book to explain why and how this happened through the perspective of a firsthand observer in the Black Earth region.
Author | : Susanne A. Wengle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107072484 |
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Examines the transformation of the Russian electricity system during post-Soviet marketization, arguing for a view of economic and political development as mutually constitutive.
Author | : Thomas Lahusen |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Former Soviet republics |
ISBN | : 3825806405 |
Download What is Soviet Now? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Economists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism.
Author | : Marcus C. Levitt |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609090268 |
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The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight was not merely a Western import. In his masterful study, Levitt shows the visual to have had deep indigenous roots in Russian Orthodox culture and theology, arguing that the visual played a crucial role in the formation of early modern Russian culture and identity. Levitt traces the early modern Russian quest for visibility from jubilant self-discovery, to serious reflexivity, to anxiety and crisis. The book examines verbal constructs of sight—in poetry, drama, philosophy, theology, essay, memoir—that provide evidence for understanding the special character of vision of the epoch. Levitt's groundbreaking work represents both a new reading of various central and lesser known texts and a broader revisualization of Russian eighteenth-century culture. Works that have considered the intersections of Russian literature and the visual in recent years have dealt almost exclusively with the modern period or with icons. The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia is an important addition to the scholarship and will be of major interest to scholars and students of Russian literature, culture, and religion, and specialists on the Enlightenment.
Author | : V. Tikhomirov |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2000-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230289061 |
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This book deals with general political and economic developments that took place in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The major aim of the book is to analyse successes and failures of Russian reform attempts, as well as their effect on the development of Russian regions, particularly from the point of view of interrelation between socio-economic tendencies and political developments. Analysis concentrates on both national dynamics and dynamics of development in three main groups of regions (mining, agricultural and manufacturing).
Author | : Alessandra Russo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319606247 |
Download Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book aims to understand the “texture” of the post-Soviet region, where waves of de-integration and re-integration have been resonating at different times and through diverse manifestations over the last quarter of century. The post-Soviet states have been evolving in an embryonic system of states in their close neighbourhood, whose boundaries and rules of interactions are still in the making. However, one can already detect specific traits of regional governance, one of these being the presence of overlapping organisations and institutions. It includes reflections on relations between state formation and region formation and a tentative conceptualisation of a post-colonial form of regionalism. The focus on small states, featuring different behaviours vis-à-vis regional organisations and regional imaginaries in their transitional and still unsettled state identities and foreign policy narratives, constitutes a further element of originality. This innovative volume is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of International Relations with a special interest in either the Former Soviet Space or Comparative Regionalism.
Author | : Simon Payaslian |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857731696 |
Download The Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has experienced a reversal from democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian regime and has been accused of repressive approaches to human rights. Here, Simon Payaslian juxtaposes a masterful survey of the history of the Armenian people from the nineteenth century through the first republic (1918-21) and Sovietization to the present, with the evolution of international human rights standards, and argues that a statist and authoritarian political culture has impeded political liberalization and institutionalization of human rights principles. Highlighting the clash between sovereignty on one side and human rights and democracy on the other, this comprehensive and in-depth analysis is essential for all those interested in human rights, democratization, political repression and the former Soviet republics.
Author | : Mark Beissinger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2014-07-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113999302X |
Download Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism's demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities. Eleven essays by a distinguished group of scholars assess whether post-communist developments in specific areas continue to be shaped by the experience of communism or, alternatively, by fundamental divergences produced before or after communism. Chapters deal with the variable impact of the communist experience on post-communist societies in such areas as regime trajectories and democratic political values; patterns of regional and sectoral economic development; property ownership within the energy sector; the functioning of the executive branch of government, the police, and courts; the relationship of religion to the state; government language policies; and informal relationships and practices.
Author | : Meg E. Rithmire |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 131644533X |
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Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archival research, the book tracks land reforms and urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that property rights arrangements at the local level varied widely according to different local strategies for economic prosperity and political stability. In particular, the author links fiscal relations and economic bases to property rights regimes, finding that more 'open' cities are subject to greater state control over land.