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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union
| Author | : Loren R. Graham |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521287890 |
By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who would like to read one book on the subject. This book has been written for that reader. The history of Russian and Soviet science is a story of remarkable achievements and frustrating failures. That history is presented here in a comprehensive form, and explained in terms of its social and political context. Major sections include the tsarist period, the impact of the Russian Revolution, the relationship between science and Soviet society, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual scientific disciplines. The book also discusses the changes brought to science in Russia and other republics by the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Know Your Enemy
| Author | : David C. Engerman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 473 |
| Release | : 2009-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199886687 |
As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society and culture at a time when many said that these were contradictions in terms, as well as Russian history and literature. And this broad network, Engerman argues, forever changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that still matter today.
China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949-present
| Author | : Thomas P. Bernstein |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780739142226 |
In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.
The Formation of the Soviet Union
| Author | : Richard Pipes |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674309517 |
Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence of a multinational Communist state. Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area—first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
| Author | : Mark Kramer |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 645 |
| Release | : 2021-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 179363193X |
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after World War II. Amid the Cold War division of Europe into Western and Eastern blocs, several long-time neutral countries abandoned neutrality and joined NATO. Other countries remained neutral but were still perceived as a threat to the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe’s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these relations were perceived by other powers.
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
| Author | : Sergei I. Zhuk |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2020-07-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1498551254 |
This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.
The Soviet Union under Brezhnev
| Author | : William J. Tompson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2014-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317881729 |
The Soviet Union Under Brezhnev provides an accessible post-Soviet perspective on the history of the USSR from the mid-1960’s to the mid-1980’s. It challenges both the ‘evil empire’ image of the USSR that was widespread in the early 1980’s and the ‘stagnation’ label attached to the period by Soviet reformers under Gorbachev. The book makes use of a range of memoirs, interviews, archival documents and other sources not available before 1990 to place Brezhnev and his epoch in a broader historical context. The author: examines high politics, foreign policy and policy making explores broader social, cultural and demographic trends presents a picture of Soviet society in the crucial decades prior to the upheavals and crises of the late 1980’s While stopping well short of a full-scale rehabilitation of Brezhnev, Tompson rejects the prevailing image of the Soviet leader as a colourless non-entity, drawing attention to Brezhnev’s real political skills, as well as his faults, and to the systemic roots of many of the problems he faced.
Stealing the State
| Author | : Steven Lee Solnick |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780674836808 |
Solnick argues that the Soviet system fell victim not to stalemate at the top nor to revolution from below, but to opportunism from within. In case studies on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription, he tells the story from a new perspective, testing Western theories of reform.
Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union
| Author | : Thomas Crump |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2013-11-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134669151 |
Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin. During Brezhnev’s time Soviet power seemed at its height and increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and successful in its space missions, and the Soviet Union's influence reached into all part of the world. Yet, as this book, which provides a comprehensive overview and reassessment of Brezhnev’s life, early political career and career as leader, shows, the seeds of decline were sown in Brezhnev's time. There was a huge over-commitment of resources to the Soviet industrial-military complex and to massively expensive foreign policy overstretch. At the same time there was a failure to deliver on citizens' rising expectations, and an overconfident ignoring of dissidents and their demands. The book will be of great interest to Russian specialists, and also to scholars of international relations and world history.
