Author: Walter Connor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
Soviet Social Problems
Author: Walter Connor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book analyzes the Soviet Union's social problems, focusing on those it shares with Western industrial societies. It assesses the social concerns confronting Gorbachev, including poverty; prostitution; health, education, and family issues; and the difficulty of adapting to technological change.
The Soviet Social Contract and why it Failed
Author: Linda J. Cook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674828001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674828001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the first critical assessment of the likelihood and implications of such a contract. Linda Cook pursues the idea from Brezhnev's day to our own, and considers the constraining effect it may have had on Gorbachev's attempts to liberalize the Soviet economy.
The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev
Author: Maria Rogacheva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196361
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A major new contribution to understanding the transition of Soviet society from Stalinism to a more humane model of socialism.
The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
Author: Tomila V. Lankina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009080393
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' – Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist – to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009080393
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' – Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist – to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.
The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stephen Lovell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199238480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199238480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Economic problems of Socialism in the USSR
Author: Joseph Stalin
Publisher: LP
ISBN: 3989881949
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In one of his last works written in 1952, Stalin addresses various economic challenges facing the Soviet Union in its pursuit of socialism. He discusses topics ranging from commodity production under socialism to the role of the law of value, offering insights and solutions based on Marxist-Leninist theory.
Publisher: LP
ISBN: 3989881949
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A new translation from the original Russian manuscript with a new afterword by the translator and a timeline of Stalin's life and works. In one of his last works written in 1952, Stalin addresses various economic challenges facing the Soviet Union in its pursuit of socialism. He discusses topics ranging from commodity production under socialism to the role of the law of value, offering insights and solutions based on Marxist-Leninist theory.
Social Change in Soviet Russia
Author: Alex Inkeles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674498754
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674498754
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894234
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A history of Soviet education policy 1921-34, this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894234
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A history of Soviet education policy 1921-34, this is a sequel to the author's highly praised Commissariat of Enlightenment.
Social Innovations in Post-Soviet Countries
Author: Bakhrom Radjabov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000597830
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the USSR, organisations such as the UNDP have encouraged local communities and governments to innovate in order to find solutions to existing social problems. This book demonstrates that progress with social innovations has varied, with countries with low government support such as Uzbekistan struggling, whereas countries with better government support and a more active civil society, such as Armenia and Ukraine, have seen more positive results. Covering the period 2012-2020 and a broad range of countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia, this book provides an impressively broad-ranging critical analysis of post-Soviet social innovation. Including social innovations emerging as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, this will be an important comparative study for researchers and practitioners working on social innovation, and to those with an interest in post-Soviet development.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000597830
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the USSR, organisations such as the UNDP have encouraged local communities and governments to innovate in order to find solutions to existing social problems. This book demonstrates that progress with social innovations has varied, with countries with low government support such as Uzbekistan struggling, whereas countries with better government support and a more active civil society, such as Armenia and Ukraine, have seen more positive results. Covering the period 2012-2020 and a broad range of countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia, this book provides an impressively broad-ranging critical analysis of post-Soviet social innovation. Including social innovations emerging as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, this will be an important comparative study for researchers and practitioners working on social innovation, and to those with an interest in post-Soviet development.
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author: Diane P. Koenker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780393803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780393803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description