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Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

A legacy for Gorbachev

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

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Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

A legacy for Gorbachev

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error. Economic rationality has been sacrificed to political expedients, and the cultural sphere has been put to use as a legitimating and rationalizing device. This book analyses the internal logic of this process from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to Gorbachev’s ‘revolution from above’, including coverage of the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras. The book focuses on the structural determinants of the Soviet Model, thus seeking to reveal the specific rationalities that characterizes ‘Soviet man’. Its conclusion casts serious doubt on the likelihood of new policies defeating seven decades of Bolshevik rule and social indoctrination. It will be of interest to students of economics, political science and history.

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1000544532

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The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

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The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppressor? The topic of this book is the implosion of the Soviet empire. It tells the parallel stories of how the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled successfully to gain their freedom, and how the policies pursued by Mikhail Gorbachev served to mobilize and politicize Baltic demands. Particular emphasis is placed on unintended consequences that resulted from repeated interventions by Moscow. The authors develop a loose theoretic framework for the examination of this critical struggle. The study starts by developing the analytical tools and then proceeds to outline, as background, the most salient features of Gorbachev's reform programme and of the history of the Baltic States. The core of the analysis is then presented in three chapters, devoted to three consecutive stages in the game. The first shows how strategies on both sides were initially formulated in consensus. In the second it is shown how consensus transformed into pure conflict, and in the third all actors are seeking to escape general collapse. The main conclusion points at the absence of ‘politics’ in the Soviet System as a main cause of its self-destruction.

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1351059130

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All International Politics Is Local

The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

By: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

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All International Politics Is Local

The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration, and Democratization

By: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch

How does regional interdependence influence the prospects for conflict, integration, and democratization? Some researchers look at the international system at large and disregard the enormous regional variations. Others take the concept of sovereignty literally and treat each nation-state as fully independent. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch looks at disparate zones in the international system to see how conflict, integration, and democracy have clustered over time and space. He argues that the most interesting aspects of international politics are regional rather than fully global or exclusively national. Differences in the local context of interaction influence states' international behavior as well as their domestic attributes. In All International Politics Is Local, Gleditsch clarifies that isolating the domestic processes within countries cannot account for the observed variation in distribution of political democracy over time and space, and that the likelihood of transitions is strongly related to changes in neighboring countries and the prior history of the regional context. Finally, he demonstrates how spatial and statistical techniques can be used to address regional interdependence among actors and its implications. Kristian Skrede Gleditsch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472023357

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9780472023356

The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

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Regions in Central Europe

The Legacy of History

By: Sven Tägil

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Regions in Central Europe

The Legacy of History

By: Sven Tägil

The subjective term region and its theoretical implications are considered in the opening chapters of this text. The empirical section ranges in time from the appearance of the German stern duchies in the Middle Ages to cross-border co-operation in the Oder are today, and geographically from Baden-Wurttemberg in the west to Transylvania, Carpatho-Ruthenia and the Kalingrad enclave in the east. The contributors to the text highlight the complex problems of local identity and the centrality of culture in shaping notions of the region.

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Hurst & Company

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1850653976

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9781850653974

Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

A legacy for Gorbachev

By: Kristian Gerner,Stefan Hedlund

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A legacy for Gorbachev

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Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

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The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

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All International Politics Is Local

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The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

Regions in Central Europe

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Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

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