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Book The Soviet Political Mind

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  • Author : Robert C. Tucker
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN : 9780393005820
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind written by Robert C. Tucker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet political mind was a mosaic of ideology and pragmatism.

Book The Soviet Political Mind  Stalinism and Post Stalin Change

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind Stalinism and Post Stalin Change written by Robert W. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soviet Political Mind

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind written by Robert C. Tucker and published by New York : Praeger [1963]. This book was released on 1963 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soviet Political Mind

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind written by Robert Charles Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soviet Political Mind  Studies Instalinism and Post stalin Change

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind Studies Instalinism and Post stalin Change written by R. C. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soviet Mind

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  • Author : Isaiah Berlin
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780815709046
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Soviet Mind written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah Berlins response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Never before collected, Berlins writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalins manipulative artificial dialectic; portraits of Osip Mandelshtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more.

Book Rethinking the Soviet Experience

Download or read book Rethinking the Soviet Experience written by Stephen F. Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Stephen F. Cohen cuts through Cold War stereotypes of the Soviet Union to arrive at fresh interpretations of that country's traumatic history and its present-day political realities. Cohen's lucidly written, revisionist analysis reopens an array of major historical questions. As he probes Soviet history, society, and politics, Cohen demonstrates how this country has remained stable during its long journey from revolution to conservatism. It the process, he suggests more enlightened approaches to American/Soviet relations. Based on the author's many years of study and research, including numerous visits to the USSR, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of world affairs today.

Book The Soviet Political Mind

Download or read book The Soviet Political Mind written by Robert Charles Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ideology  Politics  and Government in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Ideology Politics and Government in the Soviet Union written by John Alexander Armstrong and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a social science approach, the author presents the historical and ideological foundations of today's Soviet political system and provides a concise but thorough exposition of the Soviet political and legal institutions, including the role of the Communist Party. This fourth edition also addresses economic issues, nationality problems and the interplay of domestic and international forces in Soviet foreign policy. Originally published in 1962 by Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.

Book The soviet political mind

Download or read book The soviet political mind written by Robert C. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Politics

Download or read book Soviet Politics written by Richard Sakwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Politics in Perspective is a new edition of Richard Sakwas successful textbook Soviet Politics: an introduction. Thoroughly revised and updated it builds on the previous editions comprehensive and accessible exploration of the Soviet system, from its rise in 1919 to its collapse in 1991. The book is divided into five parts, which focus on key aspects of Soviet politics. They are: * historical perspectives, beginning with the Tsarist regime on the eve of Revolution, the rise and development of Stalinism, through to the decline of the regime under Brezhnev and his successors and Gorbachev's attempts to revive the system * institutions of Government, such as the Communist Party, security apparatus, the military, the justice system, local government and participation * theoretical approaches to Soviet politics, including class and gender politics, the role of ideology and the shift from dissent to pluralism * key policy areas: the command economy and reform; nationality politics; and foreign and defence policy * an evaluation of Soviet rule, and reasons for its collapse. Providing key texts and bibliographies, this book offers the complete history and politics of the Soviet period in a single volume. It will be indispensable to students of Soviet and post-Soviet politics as well as the interested general reader.

Book Homo Sovieticus

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  • Author : Wladimir Velminski
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2017-02-10
  • ISBN : 0262035693
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Homo Sovieticus written by Wladimir Velminski and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens. In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of unusual broadcasts. “Relax, let your thoughts wander free...” intoned the host, the physician and clinical psychotherapist Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky. Moscow's Channel One was attempting mass hypnosis over television, a therapeutic session aimed at reassuring citizens panicked over the ongoing political upheaval—and aimed at taking control of their responses to it. Incredibly enough, this last-ditch effort to rally the citizenry was the culmination of decades of official telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and coded messages undertaken to reinforce ideological conformity. In Homo Sovieticus, the art and media scholar Wladimir Velminski explores these scientific and pseudoscientific efforts at mind control. In a fascinating series of anecdotes, Velminski describes such phenomena as the conflation of mental energy and electromagnetism; the investigation of aura fields through the “Aurathron”; a laboratory that practiced mind control methods on dogs; and attempts to calibrate the thought processes of laborers. “Scientific” diagrams from the period accompany the text. In all of the experimental methods for implanting thoughts into a brain, Velminski finds political and metaphorical contaminations. These apparently technological experiments in telepathy and telekinesis were deployed for purely political purposes.

Book The Soviet Political System

Download or read book The Soviet Political System written by Richard Cornell and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1970 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Politics

Download or read book Soviet Politics written by Gordon B. Smith and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Mind

Download or read book The Political Mind written by Attar Chand and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Politics 1917 1991

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  • Author : Mary McAuley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780198780663
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Soviet Politics 1917 1991 written by Mary McAuley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of mere months in 1991, the Soviet Union saw an attempted coup fail, Gorbachev leave office, the Baltic states acquire independence, Leningrad vote to rename itself St Petersburg, the Communist Party disband, and the Russian flag fly over the Kremlin. One of the world's great powers--a country of some 200 nationalities stretching across a dozen time zones--had simply disintegrated, ending an epoch in world history. Now, for the first time, we are able to look back and assess the complete 75 year experiment with communism. Based on extensive research and a first-hand knowledge of the Soviet system, Soviet Politics: 1917-1991 offers an authoritative and lively history of the entire spectrum of Soviet politics, from the October Revolution and the rise of Lenin to the emergence of the Commonwealth of Independent States. McAuley ranges from the Revolution to the unprecedented crash industrialization and social mobility, to dictatorship and mass terror under Stalin, to conservative state control under Krushchev, Kosygin, and Brezhnev, and finally to the swift collapse of the state. The author offers a particularly stimulating analysis of the developments that brought an end to communist party rule and the breakup of the Soviet Union. She describes, for instance, how the 1989 elections undermined the Communist Party's assumption of unqualified popular support (Yeltsin, the bete noire of the Moscow party, was swept in, and Soloviev, a deputy member of the Politburo, who ran unopposed in Leningrad, failed to garner 50% of the vote). She shows how the Congress of that year, televised nationally, revealed to a wrapt nation a Party no longer solidly united behind one stand, where deputies openly criticized the government, the KGB, and the Afghan war. And she paints a striking portrait of Gorbachev trying to reconcile irreconcilable interests, to heal the rift between Democrats and Party conservatives, as the center began to unravel. By the end of 1991, the USSR was gone forever, with momentous and unpredictable consequences not only for the peoples of the former Soviet Union, but for the world as a whole. Soviet Politics helps readers make sense of the developments since 1985, showing how and why the system fell apart. It will interest anyone wanting a full understanding of current world events.

Book The System

Download or read book The System written by G. A. Arbatov and published by Crown. This book was released on 1992 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arbatov reveals the political ramifications of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress and the resultant thaw, and describes the coup d'etat that removed Khrushchev from power in 1964. He gives a full report on the re-Stalinization campaign of 1968-1974 and the period of stagnation that followed. It is clear that even in the depths of the Cold War, the monolithic facade that the Soviet Union presented to the world actually contained pockets of open thinking and dissent. As the party's leading expert on the United States, Arbatov offers illuminating analysis of how the Soviet Union's relationship with America evolved from the late 1960s, through the short-lived detente to the "second Cold War" and the second Russian Revolution. He frankly assesses the personalities and leadership qualities of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, with whom he worked most closely, and Gorbachev, giving us far more complex portraits of these men than we've had before.