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  • Decollectivisation, Destruction and Disillusionment

    A Community Study in Southern Estonia

    by Ilkka Alanen, Jouko Nikula, Rein Ruutsoo ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. A depiction of the decollectivization process of agriculture and the rebirth of capitalistic relations in Southern Estonia - with all their consequences at various levels of social structure and social relations. ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

  • Restoration of Class Society in Russia?

    Edited by Jouko Nikula ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Advancing the understanding of a transition society, this book presents an in-depth analysis of social structures in modern Russia. Using unique survey data spanning nearly a decade, it describes and analyzes Russia’s social development and class formation during the 1990s. Featuring a fascinating critical examination of such areas as social mobility, the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia

    Waiting for the Middle-Class Society?

    Edited by Jouko Nikula, Mikhail Chernysh ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    This book analyses social change in Russia, in particular the development of a middle class, one of the most important social and political projects of Putin’s administration.Using unique survey data collected in 1998, 2007 and 2015, the authors make extensive and theoretically justified analyses of the changing social distinctions in Russia over the past 20 years. Offering a sophisticated ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw ...
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  • Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

    by Vladimir Lenin ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

    by Kevin D. Williamson ...
    In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Socialism, Kevin Williamson reveals the fatal flaw of socialism—that efficient, complex economies simply can’t be centrally planned. But even in America, that hasn’t stopped politicians and bureaucrats from planning, to various extents, the most vital sectors of our economy: public education, energy, and the most arrogant central–planning effort of them all, ... Read more

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  • Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin

    The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia

    by David Kotz, Fred Weir ...
    Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point.Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its attempted transition to capitalism and democracy. The pursuit of Western-endorsed policies of privatization ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

    Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

    by Chris Miller ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s economic reforms play in the country’s dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Orbán

    Hungary's Strongman

    by Paul Lendvai ...
    A no-holds-barred biography of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has become a pivotal figure in European politics since 2010, this is the first English- language study of the erstwhile anti-communist rebel turned populist autocrat. Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, generating fear of migrants and deep-rooted corruption, Orbán has exploited successive ... Read more

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  • Russian Economic Reform

    by James Leitzel ...
    Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Russian Politics

    by Stephen White ...
    A fresh and compelling interpretation of Russian politics by a leading authority, this textbook focuses on political developments in the world's largest country under Putin and Medvedev. Using a wealth of primary sources, it covers economic, social and foreign policy, and the 'system' of politics that has developed in recent years. Opposing arguments are presented and students are encouraged to ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Tainted Democracy

    Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary

    by Zsuzsanna Szelényi ...
    Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbán. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbán launched a series of 'reforms', fundamentally undermining the country's twenty-year, post-Cold War liberal consensus. For supporters and foes alike, the rise and rise of Hungary's prime minister is a vivid example of how democracy can be subverted ... Read more

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