Reform in Modern Russian History

Reform in Modern Russian History
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 0521451779
ISBN-13 : 9780521451772
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Reform in Modern Russian History by : Theodore Taranovski

This volume provides a comparative study of the problems and prospects of reform in modern Russian history. Drawn from contributions to a May 1990 conference sponsored by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the book raises important methodological and historiographic questions regarding the content, scope, and significance of various reform efforts, ranging from the Great Reforms of tsar Alexander II to attempts to salvage the Soviet system undertaken by Khrushchev and Gorbachev. One of the key issues raised is whether various attempts to modernise the political and social system were a series of cyclical failures or demonstrate a pattern of progressive development.Reform in Modern Russian History favours the second mode of interpretation and provides an excellent background for all who want to understand the Gorbachev era and contemporary Russian politics.

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms
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Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages : 772
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ISBN-10 : 1929223064
ISBN-13 : 9781929223060
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms by : Peter Reddaway

Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881

Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 0253208610
ISBN-13 : 9780253208613
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Russia's Great Reforms, 1855–1881 by : Ben Eklof

The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reforms of local government, the judiciary, the military, education, the financial system, censorship, and other domains. This volume, the work of an international group of scholars that includes historians from Russia, maps out the major landmarks in the conceptualization and implementation of the Great Reforms during the reign of Alexander II and proposes a variety of perspectives from which to view them. -- From publisher's description.

The Great Reforms

The Great Reforms
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 0875801552
ISBN-13 : 9780875801551
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Reforms by : W. Bruce Lincoln

The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf armed forces into a citizen army in which men from all classes bore equal responsibility for military service. This invaluable study explains why the legislation assumed the shape that it did and estimates what the Great Reforms ultimately accomplished. The Great Reforms offered readers a vital starting point from which to evaluate the prospects for glasnost', perestroika, and reform in the Gorbachev era.

Russia's Capitalist Revolution

Russia's Capitalist Revolution
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Publisher : Peterson Institute
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9780881325379
ISBN-13 : 0881325376
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Russia's Capitalist Revolution by : Anders Åslund

In the Vanguard of Reform

In the Vanguard of Reform
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 0875805361
ISBN-13 : 9780875805368
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Vanguard of Reform by : W. Bruce Lincoln

The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905. Coming directly after the notoriously repressive last decade of the Nicholas era, the appearance of such dramatic reform has led scholars to seek its causes in dramatic events. Surely some great, even cataclysmic, force must have driven Alexander II and his advisers to initiate what appears to be such an astonishing change in policy. In their search for the origins of these Great Reforms, historians generally have focused upon two phenomena. The first of these was Russia's defeat in the Crimean War by a relatively small, ineptly commanded Allied expeditionary force. The second was the serf revolts, which increased dramatically in the 1850s. From these events, most historians have concluded that the economic failings of serfdom, the problem of preserving domestic peace, and the need to restore Russia's tarnished military prestige were the major forces that convinced Alexander II's government to embark upon a new reformist path. As Lincoln's examination of the long-unstudied Russian archival evidence shows, there are good reasons to question whether such crises of policy and failings of Russia's servile economy impelled Alexander II and his advisers along a previously uncharted reformist path after the Crimean War. Further, in light of the Russian bureaucracy's slowness in drafting much less complex administrative reforms during the previous century, Lincoln argues that the Great Reform legislation simply was too complex and required too much sophisticated knowledge about the Empire's economic, administratvive, and judicial affairs to have been formulated in the brief half-decade after the war's end.

Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881

Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781317872573
ISBN-13 : 1317872576
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801-1881 by : David Saunders

This eagerly awaited study of Russia under Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II -- the Russia of War and Peace and Anna Karenina -- brings the series near to completion. David Saunders examines Russia's failure to adapt to the era of reform and democracy ushered into the rest of Europe by the French Revolution. Why, despite so much effort, did it fail? This is a superb book, both as a portrait of an age and as a piece of sustained historical analysis.

Resisting the State

Resisting the State
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781139455718
ISBN-13 : 1139455710
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Resisting the State by : Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 0714657050
ISBN-13 : 9780714657059
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia by : Ben Eklof

A collection of essays which examine the reform of the educational system in post Soviet Russia in historical and comparative perspective.

Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires

Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9781474238533
ISBN-13 : 147423853X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires by : Adrian Brisku

Throughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new laws and institutions, opening up the economy to the outside world, and entering the European political community of imperial states. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires tackles the dilemma faced by both empires, namely how to bring about meaningful change without undermining the legal, political and economic status quo. The book offers a unique comparison of Ottoman and Russian politics of reform and their connection to the wider European politico-economic space.