[PDF] Ussr In Crisis eBook

Author : Hillel Ticktin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315488035

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Hillel Ticktin has been one of the most controversial figures in Soviet studies for 25 years. His assertions that the Soviet economy was hopelessly inefficient, that the ruble was a sham, and that the elite was desperate once sounded outrageous. Ticktin consistently argued that perestroika would fail. In his view the USSR was and remained inherently Stalinist. It might lurch back and forth between reformist and reactionary leadership factions but, the system could not evolve, nor could it be restructured. Ultimately, it could only disintegrate, and when it did, the workers would hold the balance. This collection of essays offers a thorough sample of his views.

Author : Alexander Dallin
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Published originally as "The Soviet System in Crisis - a Reader of Western and Soviet Views", this revised edition offers a discussion of the transformation of communism under Gorbachev and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. A wide variety of views is represented.

Author : Robert William Davies
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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While the capitalist world was experiencing The Crash and the beginnings of the Depression, a massive investment program initiated the Soviet Union's transformation from a peasant country to an industrial power. Here is a nearly day-by-day account of the establishment of political institutions only now being challenged by Gorbachev's reforms. Complements the two previous volumes, but is designed to stand on its own. Well-printed (in China) on acidic paper. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Author : R. W. Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 34,54 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349059358

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The profound economic crisis of 1931-33 undermined the process of industrialisation and the stability of the regime. In spite of feverish efforts to achieve the over ambitious first five-year plan, the great industrial projects lagged far behind schedule. These were years of inflation, economic disorder and of terrible famine in 1933. In response to the crisis, policies and systems changed significantly. Greater realism prevailed: more moderate plans, reduced investment, strict monetary controls, and more emphasis on economic incentives and the role of the market. The reforms failed to prevent the terrible famine of 1933, in which millions of peasants died. But the last months of 1933 saw the first signs of an industrial boom, the outcome of the huge investments of previous years. Using the previously secret archives of the Politburo and the Council of People's Commissars, the author shows how during these formative years the economic system acquired the shape which it retained until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Author : Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804762014

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300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.

Author : David Brandenberger
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155379

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The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to promote a coherent sense of "Soviet" identity during the interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilize society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the party's ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. An exposé of systemic failure within Stalin's ideological establishment, Propaganda State in Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.

Author : Alexander Dallin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1000305775

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This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together outstanding Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers the full spectrum of views—skeptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic—offered by journalists, politicians, observers, and participants. Introductory and concluding material by the editors provides the essential context to help students understand the myriad opinions put forth on the vast changes in the USSR and where its future may lie.

Author : Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393953367

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The Soviet Union in the post-Brezhnev era confronts an economic disaster on a vast scale.

Author : Ali Askerov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 149859655X

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In the 30 years since the emergence of the post-Soviet conflicts things have both changed and remained the same – continuities and changes in post-Soviet conflicts are the primary themes of this volume – it addresses all major wars, civil wars, and rebellions in the former Soviet Union. The volume focuses on factors that have contributed or may contribute to the resolution of the post-Soviet conflicts, most of which have represented rather long and damaging crises. In all conflict cases Moscow has been guided by Russian state interests – some have been instigated or fueled, others driven to a frozen state, and still a couple of others have been constructively resolved due to Moscow’s intervention. Russia has used a long-term strategy for the resolution of those conflicts that have taken place on its soil, but in regards to the conflicts in other post-Soviet states, there is no long-term solution in sight. As such, the conflicts in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Nagorniy Karabakh, remain unresolved involving not only the named states, but Russia as well. They may represent localized national or regional crisis impacting only the states involved, but for the Russian Federation they epitomize one huge post-Soviet crisis with no obvious end.