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Author: Michael E. Urban Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521372569 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 201
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Control of office has long been regarded as the key element in understanding power and policy in the Soviet system. What, however, accounts for the control of office and how are individuals recruited into positions of power and responsibility? In An Algebra of Soviet Power, Michael Urban adopts a fresh approach and introduces into the field of political elite studies the sociological technique of vacancy chain analysis.
Author: Michael E. Urban Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521372569 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
Control of office has long been regarded as the key element in understanding power and policy in the Soviet system. What, however, accounts for the control of office and how are individuals recruited into positions of power and responsibility? In An Algebra of Soviet Power, Michael Urban adopts a fresh approach and introduces into the field of political elite studies the sociological technique of vacancy chain analysis.
Author: Stephen Fortescue Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349141720 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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A description of the contemporary Russian economy on the basis of an analysis of economic policy-making structures and procedures. The empirical detail is concentrated in the heavy industry sector, although the relationships between all sectors receive attention. All sources of policy-making input are examined - the presidency and central governmental agencies, sectoral state agencies, industrial representative associations, parliament and the regions, and individual enterprises. Policy-making procedures receive considerable attention, as part of an effort to distinguish sharply between formal and informal styles of policy making.
Author: Peter Gatrell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521466196 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 428
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This book provides an economic historian's perspective on major questions that confront all students of Russian history: how stable were the economic and administrative structures of late-imperial Russia, and how well prepared was Russia for war in 1914? The decade following the Russo-Japanese War witnessed profound changes in the political system and in the industrial economy. The regime faced challenges to its authority from industrialists, caught in the throes of recession, and from parliamentary critics of tsarist administration. Peter Gatrell provides a comprehensive account of the attempts made by government and business to confront these challenges, examining the organisation and performance of a key industry and showing how decisions were reached about the allocation of resources, and the far-reaching consequences these decisions entailed.
Author: William A. Clark Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9781563240560 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 260
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An analysis of political corruption and attempts to battle it in the Soviet elite, without the usual baggage of moral indignation and finger-pointing. Examines how corruption fit into the structure of the bureaucracy and the society, attitudes toward it, data on its prevalence, the politics and methods of combating it, and the future of reform in the successor states. Paper edition (unseen), $16.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: B. Fowkes Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230377467 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 285
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This book tells the dramatic story of the unexpected disintegration of the Soviet Union. The author draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate the growth of national awareness among the many subject peoples, partly promoted by the actions of the communists themselves. He concludes that, the efforts of Mikhail Gorbachev to reform the state he initially controlled, undermined and eventually destroyed the mechanisms that held the non-Russians in check.
Author: Tomila Lankina Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742530225 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
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This book examines the impact of Russia's local self-governing institutions on nationalist movement mobilization in Russia. It is the first study identifying municipalities as central to explaining aspects of ethnic or broader social activism in post-Soviet Russia. Because the book is comparative in scope, it also contributes to debates on movement dynamics and nationalist mobilization in other national and institutional settings.
Author: Christoph Bluth Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521403726 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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In this book Dr Christoph Bluth presents an original analysis of the build up of Soviet strategic forces from the death of Stalin to the SALT I agreement. The author is able to demonstrate how domestic priorities and internal power struggles account for the seeming inconsistencies of Soviet military and foreign policy.
Author: Michael E. Urban Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521566117 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 452
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Blending first hand accounts of grassroots politics with an original theory of social relations under communism, this 1997 book seeks to explain one of the seminal events of this century: the rebirth of politics in Russia amid the collapse of the USSR. The authors trace the process from the pre-political period of dissident activity, through perestroika and the appearance of political groups and publications, elections, the formation of political parties and mass movements, counter-revolution and coup d'état, the victory of democratic forces and the organization of a Russian state; to the struggle of power in the post-communist epoch, the violent end of the first republic and the contentious relations engulfing its successor. By focusing on the popular forces which accomplished Russia's political rebirth, rather than the reforms of the Soviet establishment, this book offers an original perspective on this critical period.
Author: Tomasz Kamusella Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039118830 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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After the end of communism and the breakups of the studiously anational polities of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia into successor nation-states, nationalism and ethnicity returned to the fore of international politics. Earlier these forces had been relegated to the back burner of history when the Cold War struggle unfolded. But even then the process of decolonization had been none other but the gradual globalization of the nation and nation-state as the most legitimate forms of modern-day peoplehood and statehood. At present, nationalism is the sole uncontested global ideology of statehood legitimization. The ethnic variety of this ideology also forms the basis upon which stateless groups reinvent themselves as nations in order to be able to lay claim to territorial autonomy or separate statehood. This volume inaugurates a new Peter Lang book series, Nationalisms across the Globe, devoted to these burning issues, which shall influence the near future of the world. From a geographical perspective, this collection focuses mainly on Central and Eastern Europe and also Southern Africa. Significantly it also proposes novel theoretical approaches to the phenomena of nationalism and ethnicity.
Author: Michael E. Urban
Author: Michael E. Urban
Author: Michael E. Urban
Author: Stephen Fortescue
Author: Peter Gatrell
Author: William A. Clark
Author: B. Fowkes
Author: Tomila Lankina
Author: Christoph Bluth
Author: Michael E. Urban
Author: Tomasz Kamusella