The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
Author: Robert V. Daniels
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300134932

Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.

Soviet Policy Towards Japan

Soviet Policy Towards Japan
Author: Myles L. C. Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1988-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521351316

Dr Robertson provides a comprehensive analysis of a vital but often neglected contemporary relationship, and suggests that portrayals of basic Soviet-Japanese antipathy may be overplayed, largely as a result of excessive concentration upon a few specific past episodes.

Survey

Survey
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 1963
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders

Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders
Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521892445

Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders also compares these men with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, yielding new insight into the nature of Soviet and post-Soviet politics and into the dynamics of "transformational" leadership more generally. The book is an important contribution to the analysis and evaluation of political leadership. It is well written and accessible to the nonspecialist."--Jacket.

Brezhnev Reconsidered

Brezhnev Reconsidered
Author: E. Bacon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230501087

Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for almost two decades when it was at the height of its powers. This book is a long overdue reappraisal of Brezhnev the man and the system over which he ruled. By incorporating much of the new material available in Russian, it challenges the received wisdom about the Brezhnev years, and provides a fascinating insight into the life and times of one of the twentieth century's most neglected political leaders.

Presidential Power in Russia

Presidential Power in Russia
Author: Eugene Huskey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315482193

This is the first major assessment of the role of the presidency in Russia's difficult transition form communist rule. Huskey analyzes the establishment and functioning of the Russian presidency as an institution and in relation to the other leading institutions of state: the government, parliament, courts, and regional authorities. Although this is not a biography of the first president, Boris Yeltsin, his allies and his rivals loom large in the study of a critical phase in the creation of a new Russian political system.