Download or read book Privilege in the Soviet Union Routledge Revivals written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them. This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews among emigré groups and a close analysis of original and little-known legal historical sources. There are special sections on the nature of change in the Soviet elite and on social mobility. This reissue will attract interest amongst students and scholars concerned with the history, politics and sociology of the Soviet Union; it will also be of value to all those concerned with the age-old problem of social equality.

Download or read book Privilege in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Privilege in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Power and Privilege written by David Christian and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of a book first published in 1986. This edition has been updated and expanded to include new chapters on the Brezhnev era and perestroika and to take into account the dissolution of the Soviet system. The text is well illustrated and is supported by a statistical appendix, an annotated bibliography, a glossary, chronology and an index.

Download or read book Power and Privilege written by David Christian and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1986 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval & early modern times - Reforms - Industrialisation - Mensheviks; revolution - Civil war - Stalin.

Download or read book Klass written by David K. Willis and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Privilege in the Soviet Union written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Imperial and Soviet Russia written by David Christian and published by Palgrave He, Print UK. This book was released on 1997 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to make sense of the modern world without understanding the vast, and ultimately unsuccessful, experiment with Communism that began in Russia in 1917. Imperial and Soviet Russia offers a coherent interpretation of the turbulent history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union during the last two centuries. Tracing the roots of the Communist experiment in the peasant world of traditional Russia, it shows how the harsh social and economic changes of the nineteenth century created enough dislocation to topple the tsarist regime and bring the Bolsheviks to power in 1917.

Download or read book The Privilege was Mine written by princess Zinaida Schakovskoy and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Privilege was Mine written by Zinaïda Schakovskoy and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Privilege was mine written by Zinaïda A. Šachovskaja and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Privilege was Mine A Russian Princess Returns to the Soviet Union Translated by Peter Wiles written by Zinaida Alekseevna SHAKHOVSKAYA and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1986 book deals with the continuing problem of poverty in Soviet society, a problem which the Revolution of 1917 was supposed to solve in a planned and expeditious manner. The topic is important both because it involves large numbers of people, and because it illustrates a major failing of Marxism-Leninism in practice. The book attempts to analyse Soviet poverty both from Soviet and western sources: the former are very limited, because discussion of poverty in the USSR falls under a strict censorship ban. This is one of the reasons why it has been so sadly neglected by western observers. The analysis concerns itself with most of the common problems of poverty and under-privilege in an industrialised society. Exclusion from the political process, and the particular social implications of the constitutional status of labour as both a right and a duty, are examined in an account that emphasises life-style and social problems, rather than merely the content of the wage-packet.

Download or read book The Sino Soviet Alliance written by Austin Jersild and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets. Jersild zeros in on the ground-level experiences of the socialist bloc advisers in China, who were involved in everything from the development of university curricula, the exploration for oil, and railway construction to piano lessons. Their goal was to reproduce a Chinese administrative elite in their own image that could serve as a valuable ally in the Soviet bloc's struggle against the United States. Interestingly, the USSR's allies in Central Europe were as frustrated by the "great power chauvinism" of the Soviet Union as was China. By exposing this aspect of the story, Jersild shows how the alliance, and finally the split, had a true international dimension.

Download or read book Nomenklatura written by M. S. Voslenskiĭ and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Glorious Privilege of Being Independent written by Susan P. Graber and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty in the Soviet Union written by Mervyn Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant analysis of Soviet poverty from Soviet as well as Western sources. Emphasizes lifestyle and social issues, although some problems of an industrialized society are also considered.