Alexander Dallin, Gail W Lapidus

The Soviet System In Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader Of Western And Soviet Views

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars and students with source materials and interpretations not available in standard texts. In addition, the book will be regularly revised and updated to take account of rapidly changing events. Alexander Dallin and Gail Lapidus have brought together outstanding Western analyses, as well as Soviet documents and commentary, dealing with developments in the USSR's politics, economy, society, culture, and foreign policy since 1985. The collection covers the full spectrum of views-skeptical and enthusiastic, ideological and pragmatic-offered by journalists, politicians, observers, and participants. Introductory and concluding material by the editors provides the essential context to help students understand the myriad opinions put forth on the vast changes in the USSR and where its future may lie.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 711
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000305777
• Artikelnr.: 57176501

Autorenporträt

Alexander Dallinis Raymond Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University. Gail W. Lapidusis professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley and chair of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Credits
Introduction
The Setting: An Introduction
The Roots of Perestroika
A Usable Past
The Communist System
Domestic and International Factors in the Formation of Gorbachev's Reforms
Politics Before Gorbachev: De
Stalinization and the Roots of Reform
The Friends and Foes of Change: Reformism and Conservatism in the Soviet Union
Letter to the Soviet Leaders, March 19, 1970
The Pioneers of Perestroika: Back to the Intellectual Roots of Soviet Reforms
Reform and the Political and Social System
A Socialist Pluralism of Opinions: Glasnost and Policy
Making Under Gorbachev
Political Change in the Soviet Union
State and Society: Toward the Emergence of Civil Society in the Soviet Union
Voluntary Associations in Gorbachev's Reform Program
The Emergence of Russian Multiparty Politics
The Workers' Movement: A New Stage
Evaluating Gorbachev as Leader
The Quality of Gorbachev's Leadership
Gorbachev's Endgame
Soviet Political Debates
Glasnost' and Soviet Culture
Politics and History Under Gorbachev
Advances and Debts
Sources
Are Our Principles Any Good?
Speech at the Conference of the Aktiv of the Khabarovsk Territory Party Organization, July 31, 1986
Address at the Forty
Third UN General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988
Speech to the Russian Federation Congress of People's Deputies, Moscow, May 22, 1990
I Cannot Forgo My Principles
The Tragedy of Centralism
I Can't Absolve Myself of Guilt
The Architects of Card Houses
Democratic Platform Program of the CPSU, Statement of June 1, 1990
The Economy
Is Soviet Socialism Reformable?
The Soviet Economy on a Treadmill of Perestroika: Gorbachev's First Five Years
The New Soviet Plan
Beyond Perestroyka: The Soviet Economy in Crisis
Nationalism and the Future of the Federal System
State, Civil Society and Ethnic Cultural Consolidation in the USSR: Roots of the National Question
Gorbachev's Nationalities Problem
Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism
Soviet Jewry in the Age of Perestroika
The Russian Question: In Search of an Answer (a Roundtable)
Declarations of the State Sovereignty of the Russian and Ukrainian Republics
Foreign Policy and National Security
The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy
East
West: The Problem of Deideologizing Relations
The Search for New East
West Relations
New Thinking About World Communism
Gorbachev and German Unification: Revision of Thinking, Realignment of Power
The USSR and the Third World in the 1980's
Soviet National Security Under Gorbachev
State, Society, and the Military Under Gorbachev
The Future of the System
Thinking About the Soviet Future
To the Stalin Mausoleum
Managing U.S.
Soviet Relations in the 1990s
From Points to Pathways of Mutual Advantage: Next Steps in Soviet
American Relations
Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 20, 1990
Speech to the Congress of People's Deputies, December 22, 1990
Conclusion