Bøger i Russian Research Center Studies serien

No detailed description available for "How the Soviet System Works".

No detailed description available for "The Limits of Reform".

No detailed description available for "Accounting in Soviet Planning and Management".

No detailed description available for "Soviet Policy Toward India".

No detailed description available for "The Family in Soviet Russia".

No detailed description available for "Soviet-Polish Relations, 1917-1921".

No detailed description available for "Belorussia".

No detailed description available for "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao".

No detailed description available for "Titoism and the Cominform".

No detailed description available for "Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812-1855".

No detailed description available for "Minerals".

The efforts of Dmitry Tolstoi's ministry resulted in comprehensive reforms that shaped the Russian school system until early in the twentieth century. Beginning with the historical, political, biographical, and administrative contexts for Tolstoi's reforms, Sinel then provides a detailed examination of Tolstoi's transformation of Russian education at all levels, particularly the secondary level, which was the cornerstone of his program.

No detailed description available for "National Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Russia".

No detailed description available for "One Hundred Thousand Tractors".

No detailed description available for "Revolutionary Russia".

Public pronouncements of Russian leaders--prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary alike--attested the crucial role of the agricultural problem, its economically and politically explosive nature, and its persistence over the years. Emphasizing the continuity of problems and policies too often dichotomized into tsarist and Soviet eras, Volin created a sweeping panorama of the century between the emancipation of the serfs and the 1960s.

Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence of a multinational Communist state. Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area-first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.

No detailed description available for "Managerial Power and Soviet Politics".

No detailed description available for "Marxism".

No detailed description available for "Danilevsky".

A critical assessment of the implications of the "social contract" - a tacit agreement between the post-Stalin regime and the working class whereby the state provided economic and social security in return for the workers' political compliance.

A foremost Russian writer of the Soviet period, Bulgakov (1891-1940) has attracted much critical attention, yet Haber is the first to explore in depth his formative years. Blending biography and literary analysis of motifs, story, and characterization, Haber tracks one writer's answer to the dislocations of revolution, civil war, and Bolshevism.

Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.

Through Graham, executed engineer Peter Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. Palchinsky's story is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure.

No detailed description available for "The Soviet Citizen".

No detailed description available for "Dilemmas of Progress in Tsarist Russia".

No detailed description available for "Terror and Progress--USSR".

No detailed description available for "Political Control of Literature in the USSR, 1946-1959".