Author: Nicolai N. Petro
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780674750012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author: Alexander Lukin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-03-23
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0191544663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Political Culture of Russian Democrats examines the origins and development of the world view of those who call themselves 'democrats' in Russian in the last years of the USSR. The book develops a distinct approach to the study of political culture and applies it to a specific social group–members of the democratic movement in Soviet Russia. The author examines the emergence of the ideas of Russian 'democrats' during the Gorbachev era in Soviet politics, and traces the development of those beliefs in the post-Soviet era. The book argues that the liberal and democratic terminology of western politics were assimilated by Russian political culture, with the terms acquiring a different meaning.
Author: Alexander Lukin
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198295587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Political Culture of Russian Democrats examines the origins and development of the world view of those who call themselves 'democrats' in Russian in the last years of the USSR. The book develops a distinct approach to the study of political culture and applies it to a specific socialgroup-members of the democratic movement in Soviet Russia. The author examines the emergence of the ideas of Russian 'democrats' during the Gorbachev era in Soviet politics, and traces the development of those beliefs in the post-Soviet era. The book argues that the liberal and democraticterminology of western politics were assimilated by Russian political culture, with the terms acquiring a different meaning.
Author: Olga Velikanova
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 3319784439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass political culture of the mid-1930s in the USSR and thus contributes to wider research on Russian political culture. Popular comments about the constitution show how liberal, democratic and conciliatory discourse co-existed in society with illiberal, confrontational and intolerant views. The study also covers the government’s goals for the constitution’s revision and the national discussion, and its disappointment with the results. Outcomes of the discussion convinced Stalin that society was not sufficiently Sovietized. Stalin's re-evaluation of society's condition is a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted from the relaxation of 1933-36 to the Great Terror, and why repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: [London] : Macmillan
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alex Pravda
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-07-26
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1349193356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet politics and yet its development in recent years has received very little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist audience.
Author: Ellen Carnaghan
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0271045728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur H Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1000308642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume reports a research that represents some of the collaborative efforts aimed at investigating political attitudes and behaviors in the broader Soviet society, examining the public opinion constraints on efforts to transform the new organizations into a competitive political party system.