Author: Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
Publisher:
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Brent
Publisher: Atlas and Company
Published: 2010-02-22
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781934633229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To many people, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. Here, Brent asks - why didn't this happen? To answer such a question, he draws on 15 years of unprecedented access to high level Soviet archives. He shows readers a Russia where, in 1992, women sold used toothbrushes on the street to survive, yet now the shops are filled with luxury goods. Brent encounters Stalin's spectre through these changes and takes readers deep inside his archives.
Author: Wayne S. Vucinich
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul R. Gregory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521533676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the 'horse' (the economic system). Although Stalin was the system's prime architect, the system was managed by thousands of 'Stalins' in a nested dictatorship. The core values of the Bolshevik Party dictated the choice of the administrative command system, and the system dictated the political victory of a Stalin-like figure. This study pinpoints the reasons for the failure of the system - poor planning, unreliable supplies, the preferential treatment of indigenous enterprises, the lack of knowledge of planners, etc. - but also focuses on the basic principal-agent conflict between planners and producers, which created a sixty-year reform stalemate.
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daria Gritsenko
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 3030428559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today.
Author: Diane P. Koenker
Publisher:
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9781780393803
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