The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History write by Michael David-Fox. This book was released on 2003. The Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Debates on Stalinism
Debates on Stalinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debates on Stalinism write by Mark Edele. This book was released on 2020-05-25. Debates on Stalinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. It introduces major debates and major historians of the Soviet Union during the brutal reign of Stalin. Readers will better understand not only the history of our current understanding of Stalinism but also contemporary debates in Russia and Ukraine.
The Dissidents
The Dissidents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dissidents write by Peter Reddaway. This book was released on 2019-11-19. The Dissidents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidents It has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union--enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system's collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West. This book brings to life, for contemporary readers, the often underground work of the men and women who opposed the regime and authored dissident texts, known as samizdat, that exposed the tyrannies and weaknesses of the Soviet state both inside and outside the country. Peter Reddaway spent decades studying the Soviet Union and got to know these dissidents and their work, publicizing their writings in the West and helping some of them to escape the Soviet Union and settle abroad. In this memoir he captures the human costs of the repression that marked the Soviet state, focusing in particular on Pavel Litvinov, Larisa Bogoraz, General Petro Grigorenko, Anatoly Marchenko, Alexander Podrabinek, Vyacheslav Bakhmin, and Andrei Sinyavsky. His book describes their courage but also puts their work in the context of the power struggles in the Kremlin, where politicians competed with and even succeeded in ousting one another. Reddaway's book takes readers beyond Moscow, describing politics and dissident work in other major Russian cities as well as in the outlying republics.
Public Debate in Russia
Public Debate in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Debate in Russia write by Nikolai Vakhtin. This book was released on 2017-08. Public Debate in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can we trace attempts taken in Russian history to overcome the inability to speak publicly? How do different social groups in modern Russia cope with situations when they have to participate in a public discussion and arrive at a compromise? What historic, sociological, linguistic, and psychological reasons underlie intolerance towards different opinions? Can this situation be changed? Bringing together an international team of leading historians, sociolinguists and sociologists in this field, this volume explores these questions from different methodological perspectives, using various sets of data and examining the different domains of private, public and official discourses. Offering detailed case studies of the past and present communicative successes and failures in various social groups, the book explores why Russian society is unable to reach a consensus through dialogue. The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society making it essential reading for advanced students and specialist in the fields of Slavic Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics and Russian history, politics and sociology.
Resisting the State
Resisting the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resisting the State write by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. This book was released on 2006-06-19. Resisting the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.
