The Post-Soviet Nations
Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR
Will be published approx. on 25. May 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
321 pages
978-0-231-07895-5 (ISBN)
Description
How must Sovietology change as a result of the Soviet Union's collapse? Motyl and his colleagues suggest that the first step in reorientation of the field must involve recognizing the non-Russians and their republics as central to both Soviet politics and to the post-Soviet reality. The authors, all leading Sovietologists, illustrate how nationality interacted with and shaped ideology, law, elite recruitment, political repression, modernization, participation, political economy, and class. Each of the articles traces the relationship between nationality and aspects of the Soviet system up to the collapse of the USSR and the emergence in its stead of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The contributors not only provide a coherent interpretation of the demise of Soviet Communism, but they also sugest what dangers and opportunities lie in store for the Soviet Union's successor states.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-07895-5 (9780231078955)
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12/1992
Columbia University Press
€124.00
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Person
Alexander J. Motyl is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nationalities Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He is author of Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR, and the editor of Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History & Comparison in the Study of the USSR, both from Columbia University Press.
Content
The "National Factor" and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic Identities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, by Mark R. Beissinger The Political Police and the National Question in the Soviet Union, by Amy Knight Nations of the USSR: From Mobilized Participation to Autonomous Diversity, by Theodore H. Friedgut Development and Ethnicity in the Soviet Union, by Zvi Gitelman Soviet Economic Structure and the National Question, by Richard E. Ericson Class, Social Structure, Nationality, by Walter D. Connor The End of Sovietology: From Soviet Studies to Post-Soviet Studies, by Alexander J. Motyl