Developments in Soviet Politics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033357706X ISBN 13: 9780333577066

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Synopsis

This text focuses on the key institutions and policy processes in the new political system emerging after Gorbachev's resignation and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It highlights the problems of governability at all levels posed by the development of mass politics - especially in its ethnic and nationalist forms - and concludes by presenting contrasting views on the future of the system and how it can best be understood. The text is updated to January 1992. One of the editors, Zvi Gitelman has also written "A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and The Soviet Union From 1881 to The Present".

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About the Author

Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including Kill Me and Dry Ice. He lives in Colorado.

Zvi Gitelman is Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he has been director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies and of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Gitelman has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations; the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard. He has been a research fellow at Oxford and a visiting professor at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities, Central European University (Budapest) and the Russian State University for the Humanities. Gitelman is a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University where he also received his doctorate. He is the author or editor of 14 books and more than 100 articles in scholarly journals. His book A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union since 1881 was translated into Japanese and Russian. His most recent edited volume is Ethnicity or Religion? The Evolution of Jewish Identities. Gitelman is a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and has been active in many academic and civic organizations.

Pravda is Director of the Russian and East European Center and Fellow at St. Anthony's College, Oxford

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033357706X
• ISBN 13: 9780333577066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: White Stephen, Etc., Pravda Alex, Gitelman Zvi