Author: Robert Conquest Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Power and Policy in the U.S.S.R
Author: Robert Conquest Power and Policy in the U.S.S.R.
Author: Robert ConquestPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Beskrivelse af magtkampen i det politiske hieraki i Sovjetunionen i perioden 1949 -1960.
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Author: T. H. RigbyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349066559
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Outside Moscow
Author: Donna BahryPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231062909
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Author: Archie BrownRussia Resurrected
Author: Kathryn E. StonerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190860731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international politics. Too often, we are told that Russia plays a weak hand well. But, perhaps the nation's cards are better than we know. Russia ranks significantly behind the US and China by traditional measures of power: GDP, population size and health, and military might. Yet 25 years removed from its mid-1990s nadir following the collapse of the USSR, Russia has become a supremely disruptive force in world politics. Kathryn E. Stoner assesses the resurrection of Russia and argues that we should look beyond traditional means of power to assess its strength in global affairs. Taking into account how Russian domestic politics under Vladimir Putin influence its foreign policy, Stoner explains how Russia has battled its way back to international prominence. From Russia's seizure of the Crimea from Ukraine to its military support for the Assad regime in Syria, the country has reasserted itself as a major global power. Stoner examines these developments and more in tackling the big questions about Russia's turnaround and global future. Stoner marshals data on Russia's political, economic, and social development and uncovers key insights from its domestic politics. Russian people are wealthier than the Chinese, debt is low, and fiscal policy is good despite sanctions and the volatile global economy. Vladimir Putin's autocratic regime faces virtually no organized domestic opposition. Yet, mindful of maintaining control at home, Russia under Putin also uses its varied power capacities to extend its influence abroad. While we often underestimate Russia's global influence, the consequences are evident in the disruption of politics in the US, Syria, and Venezuela, to name a few. Russia Resurrected is an eye-opening reassessment of the country, identifying the actual sources of its power in international politics and why it has been able to redefine the post-Cold War global order.
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author: Diane P. KoenkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781780393803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Soviet Politics: the Dilemma of Power
Author: Barrington MoorePublisher: White Plains, N.Y. : International Arts and Sciences Press
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR
Author: Aron KatsenelinboigenPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483154688
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Soviet Economic Thought and Political Power in the USSR examines the evolution of economic theory in the Soviet Union from uniformity under Josef Stalin to diversity in the post-Stalin period. The reasons for uniformity and diversity in Soviet economics are analyzed, along with the structure of this diversity, the paradoxes in its development, and the conditions under which it will continue. The connection between leaders of Soviet economics and the Communist Party rulers is also discussed. Emphasis is placed on one of the principal trends in Soviet economics in the post-Stalin period: mathematical economics. This book is comprised of six chapters and begins with a discussion on the development of the economic-mathematical trend in the USSR. The social environment in the Soviet Union is examined in macro terms, along with the role of various mutations among the economists and the institutionalization of such mutations, especially in the framework of the existing research institutes and universities. The book also considers the attitudes of various factions of economists such as reactionaries, conservatives, and modernizers toward the question of the limitation of the leaders' power and toward some areas of economics, such as problems of mathematical modeling and institutional economics, and toward the Marxist ideology. The final chapter highlights the confusing struggle among the various trends in Soviet economics and the ways in which this struggle is supported by the country's political leaders. This monograph will be of interest to economists, political scientists, politicians, and economic policymakers.
Patronage and Politics in the USSR
Author: John P. WillertonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521392888
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
How do Soviet politicians rise to power? How are national and regional regimes formed? How are conflicting political interests brought together as policies are developed in the Soviet Union? In Patronage and Politics in the USSR, first published in 1991, Professor John Willerton offers major insights into the patronage networks that have dominated elite mobility, regime formation, and governance in the Soviet Union during the past twenty-five years. Using the biographical and career details of over two thousand national leaders and regional officials in Azerbaijan and Lithuania, John Willerton traces the patron-client relations underlying recruitment, mobility, and policymaking. He explores the strategies of power consolidation and coalition building used by Soviet chief executives since 1964 as well as the institutional links and policy outcomes that have resulted from network politics. The author also assesses the manner and extent to which leaders in politically stable and less stable settings, spanning different national cultural contexts, have relied upon patronage networks to consolidate power and to govern. Finally, Professor Willerton explores how, in a period of dramatic change, patron-client networks may have given way to institutionalised interest groups and political parties.