America and the Russian Dilemma
Author: Jerome Barker Landfield
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jerome Barker Landfield
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-11-17
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1476644349
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the end of the Mongol Empire to today, Russian history is a tale of cultural, political, economic and military interaction with Western powers. The depth of this relationship has created a geopolitical dilemma: Russia has persistently been both attracted to and at odds with Western ideas and technological development, which have tended to threaten Russia's sense of identity and create destabilizing divisions within society. Simultaneously, deepening involvement in Western international affairs brought meddling in Russian domestic politics and military invasion. This book examines how the centuries-old Western threat has shaped Russia's political and strategic structures, creating a culture of security rooted in vigilance against Western influence and interference.
Author: Robert G. Wesson
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Crowley
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 150175629X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Putin's Labor Dilemma, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing so threatens to generate protest and instability from a key regime constituency. However, continuing to prop up Russia's Soviet-era workplaces, writes Crowley, could lead to declining wages and economic stagnation, threatening protest and instability. Crowley explores the dynamics of a Russian labor market that generally avoids mass unemployment, the potentially explosive role of Russia's monotowns, conflicts generated by massive downsizing in "Russia's Detroit" (Tol'yatti), and the rapid politicization of the truck drivers movement. Labor protests currently show little sign of threatening Putin's hold on power, but the manner in which they are being conducted point to substantial chronic problems that will be difficult to resolve. Putin's Labor Dilemma demonstrates that the Russian economy must either find new sources of economic growth or face stagnation. Either scenario—market reforms or economic stagnation—raises the possibility, even probability, of destabilizing social unrest.
Author: Robert G. Wesson
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780030025983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mikhail A. Alexseev
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521849883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book shows that 'immigration phobia', or excessive anti-migrant hostility, is widespread globally.
Author: Jan Holzer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-01
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3030205460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the future directions of Czech international policy through an interdisciplinary analysis of both historical and current Russian-Czech relations. It analyses Czech relations with Russia based on their historical heritage underpinned by the superpower’s behaviour and interests in the Central European region. The book’s central theme is the current Czech security dilemma in which the Czech political community perceives Russia as a security threat, but also would prefer to cooperate with Russia to ensure its security. The authors give a full overview and explanation of Czech-Russian relations, while also explaining the current dilemmas within the Czech Republic’s political, cultural and economic community.
Author: Robert Wesson
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1985-11-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0275916774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revised and updated edition of The Russian Dilemma is an outstanding survey and analysis of Russia's development from the end of Mongol rule to the present day. Emphasizing the country's Eurasian heritage in history and geopolitics, the volume explains how Russia's geographical situation has led to the creation of a vast empire--composed of many races, nationalities, and religions--around what was once only a small duchy. Robert Wesson clearly demonstrates how Russia is on the one hand, a European State and, on the other, an Eastern Empire. He describes how the country has drawn heavily on European ideas and technology in order to participate in the Western power system, and yet, politically, has remained an Eastern regime.