Political Leadership in the Soviet Union

Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1989-10-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349202622

The central leadership of the Soviet political system in Moscow is analyzed by a group of Western political researchers. The text covers the entire Soviet period from 1917 to the present day, but special emphasis is placed on the post-Stalin years and new developments of the 1980s.

Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century France

Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Jeremy Jennings
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349225010

This book examines the role and place of the intellectual in twentieth-century French society. The essays are for the most part written by eminent French scholars and make available to the English-speaking reader a growing body of research which explores the ethical and historical issues raised by the prominence of the intellectual in politics since the Dreyfus Affair. The volume concludes with an examination of the contrasting and complementary roles of the French and British intellectual.

French Intellectuals Against the Left

French Intellectuals Against the Left
Author: Michael Scott Christofferson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571814272

Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism & revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. He offers an alternative interpretation for the denunciation of communism & Marxism by the French intellectual left in the late 1970s.

Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan

Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan
Author: Martin Collick
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1988-05-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349102970

Over the past thirty years Japan has shown that it is a highly dynamic society, and its economic policy-making has often astonished the world. Japanese politics, however, though sometimes showing dynamism, are very stable and frequently strangely immobilist. In this book, six specialists on Japanese politics seek to find out why.

Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: H.Gordon Skilling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349092843

This study of the "independent life of society" (dissent) in Central and Eastern Europe examines the forms of independent activity at work today. Included are autonomous family life, religion and nationalism, the second economy, "samizdat" communications, the second culture and social deviance.

Asian Development Bank and Rural Development

Asian Development Bank and Rural Development
Author: Robert Wihtol
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 231
Release: 1988-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349102008

Despite the policy change the Asian Development Bank's rural sector projects have continued to focus on increasing production, with little impact on unemployment or poverty. This study examines the reasons - both political and organizational - for the gap between policy practice.

Studies in the Economics of Central America

Studies in the Economics of Central America
Author: V. Bulmer-Thomas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1988-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1349103640

A study explaining how the social upheavals which led to the Nicaraguan revolution and the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala were rooted in the export-led model followed in the region. The author also explores their efforts to achieve regional co-operation in the economic sphere.

Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine

Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine
Author: Roger Cooter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1988-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349196061

A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts.