[PDF] Soviet Reforms And Beyond eBook

Author : Leo Cooper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349117021

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Since Gorbachev came to power much has happened in the Soviet Union. This book provides a comprehensive and composite analysis of the reforms that have taken place in the Soviet Union since 1985.

Author : David T. Twining
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1992-08-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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Colonel David T. Twining and his colleagues look at the impact of glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet system on the military. The case study approach used allows for in-depth examination of a number of key issues. Within the former USSR, the remarkable record of sacrifice and valor by women in wartime has not been matched by equal opportunity during peacetime, where they are effectively excluded from meaningful military careers. The KGB, the world's largest security and intelligence organization, proved to be among the most resistant to reform, and this, the book contends, appears to have hastened its doom. The adoption of the rule of law was widely resisted in the Soviet armed forces, and reforms in military service have come from demands by parents and relatives that the military change its lethal ways. Soviet foreign military affairs have also been affected by glasnost. The volume looks at the influence of the war in Afghanistan in the reversal of Moscow's Middle East policy. Equally important, but unheralded, has been the re-establishment of ties with China. Together, the essays in this collection illustrate the impact of a stressed political system struggling to adapt to changing circumstances, caught between the exigencies of reform and revolt. Students and scholars involved in Soviet studies as well as contemporary military studies will find much to ponder.

Author : Richard Nixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1476731764

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“Beyond Peace is Mr. Nixon’s best book.” —The New York Times Beyond Peace is a manifesto for a new America, written with visionary insight and a realistic idealism by the 37th President of the United States—and only completed weeks before his death. In this last testament, Nixon offers a new agenda for the United States and defines its role in the complex post-Cold War era. Nixon charts the course America should take in the future to ensure that the opportunities of this new era beyond peace are not lost. America’s issues, he argues, extend from a crisis of spirit which manifests itself in a corrosive entitlement mentality that he describes as “one of the greatest threats to our fiscal health, our moral fiber, and our ability to renew our nation.” With his unrivaled experience in foreign affairs gained over many years as a statesman in the international arena, he gives answers to complex foreign issues facing the United States. And his intimate portraits and analyses of world leaders—past and present—offer us a unique, bird’s-eye view of leadership and international politics. This book challenges us to seek more than just peace; it must be a mission that will unify and inspire the country, built on peace but able to transcend it.

Author : Peter Reddaway
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781929223060

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Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

Author : M. L. Sondhi
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9788170172543

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Author : Francesco Di Palma
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789200210

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Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.

Author : Vladislav Krasnov
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1991-08
Category : History
ISBN :

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Arguing that the reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev are leading toward the formation of a Russian nation-state, the author analyzes the current debate among Soviet writers about the nature of the post-communist future. He discusses the ideas of Solzhenitsyn, Likhachev and others.

Author : Stephen J. Collier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400840422

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The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.