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Russia's Engagement with the West:

Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century

By: Alexander J. Motyl,Blair A. Ruble,Lilia Shevtsova

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Russia's Engagement with the West:

Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century

By: Alexander J. Motyl,Blair A. Ruble,Lilia Shevtsova

The Putin and Bush presidencies, the 9/11 attack, and the war in Iraq have changed the dynamics of Russian-European-US relations and strained the Western alliance. Featuring contributions by leading experts in the field, this work is the first systematic effort to reassess the status of Russia's modernization efforts in this context. Part I examines political, economic, legal, and cultural developments in Russia for evidence of convergence with Western norms. In Part II, the contributors systematically analyze Russia's relations with the European Union, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the United States in light of new security concerns and changing economic and power relationships.

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351

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Routledge

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1315497832

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9781315497839

Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional political, economic, and cultural leaders in Leningrad determine the physical and socioeconomic contours of their city and region within such a centralized economic and political environment. The author examines four major policy initiatives that have emerged in Leningrad since the 1950s—physical planning innovations, integrated scientific-production associations, vocational education reform, and socioeconomic planning—and that have been anchored in attempts to plan and manage metropolitan Leningrad. Each initiative illuminates the bureaucratic and political strategies employed to obtain economic objectives, as well as the bureaucratic patterns which distinguish market and non-market experiences. The boundaries for autonomous action by local Soviet politicians, planners, and managers emerge through this inquiry. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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0520310780

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9780520310780

Second Metropolis

Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Second Metropolis

Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.

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502

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Cambridge University Press

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0521801796

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9780521801799

Money Sings

The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Money Sings

The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl

By: Blair A. Ruble

Explores the reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era by examining the politics of property in Yaroslavl.

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188

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Cambridge University Press

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0521482429

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9780521482424

Soviet Trade Unions

Their Development in the 1970s

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Soviet Trade Unions

Their Development in the 1970s

By: Blair A. Ruble

Monograph on the evolution of trade unions in the USSR - discusses historical and contemporary development, focusing on union labour policy and political participation, labour relations, freedom of association, workers participation, international relations, activities connected with international trade unions and the ILO, etc. Bibliography pp. 167 to 180 and diagram.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521237041

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9780521237048

Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

By: Blair Ruble

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Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

By: Blair Ruble

Washington, uniquely among American cities, has remained disenfranchised since its founding as a federal enclave. In the absence of an overarching political life, the very meaning of "local" became contested. Residents and communities seeking to establish their presence in the city-and, because of its capital status, the nation-confronted prohibitions against the sort of political action evident elsewhere throughout the country. For much of the twentieth century, the local life of the theater offered an alternative path to recognition as a step toward acceptance. Energetic theater leaders representing various communities pursued social and artistic acceptance by proclaiming presence from Washington stages. This book recounts four such efforts: those of African American cognoscente to establish a national Negro theater; those of Roman Catholic clerics to nurture a theater for the nation reflecting their values; those of theater enthusiasts to demonstrate the power of regional theater in an American stage community preoccupied with Manhattan; and, those of community activists to assert the legitimacy of the disenfranchised to establish their own civic presence. Together, these efforts fostered a theater scene by century's end that would emerge as the second most attended in the country behind only New York. This industry, in turn, propelled an exploding cultural community that transformed a once sleepy, Southern, provincial town into a vibrant international arts center.

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1734865989

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Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Shaping a Soviet City

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0520305809

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