Politics, Society, And Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia

by Seweryn Bialer

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000307610
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	255
File size:	618 KB

About the Author

Seweryn Bialer is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of Social Sciences and International Relations and director of the Research Institute on International Change at Columbia University. He is the author of Stalin’s Successors and The Soviet Paradox, as well as the editor of several collected works on Soviet foreign and domestic policies—the most recent of which is Gorbachev’s Russia and American Foreign Policy (Westview, 1988).

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Ideology and Political Culture -- Politics Before Gorbachev: De-Stalinization and the Roots of Reform -- The Yeltsin Affair: The Dilemma of the Left in Gorbachev’s Revolution -- State and Society: Toward the Emergence of Civil Society in the Soviet Union -- The Sobering of Gorbachev: Nationality, Restructuring, and the West -- Politics and Nationality: The Soviet Jews -- The Changing Soviet Political System: The Nineteenth Party Conference and After

Editorial Reviews

Details the internal dynamics that are forcing change in the Soviet Union. Describes how Gorbachev is not creating the changes as much as reacting to conditions requiring change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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