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  • Russia Reverts to Muscovy

    What if We Simply Drop "Russia" from the Discourse?

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Russia Reverts to Muscovy explores the implications of removing the notion of “Russia” from political and scholarly discourse.The book posits the following questions: Should the state ruled from Moscow be termed “Russia”? Might not “Muscovy” be more appropriate? It reflects on how academia has conceptualized developments among the Eastern Slavs over the centuries from the early days of Muscovy up ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Ukraine, Russia and the West

    When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe, the major Western powers had become equally ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Invisible Hands, Russian Experience, and Social Science

    Approaches to Understanding Systemic Failure

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences, and in which the sophisticated analytical models of social science have ceased to be helpful. Illustrations range from the global financial crisis to the failure to achieve speedy systemic change in the former Soviet Union and the failure to achieve ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Russia's Market Economy

    A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Russia's Market Economy is a seminal account of Russia's transition to the market, its tortuous development as a fledgling market economy through the 1990s, right through to its spectacular collapse in August 1998. Rather than beginning with the economic collapse, the book traces the historical mismanagement of Russian wealth through to the Soviet command economy, and on to Gorbachev. Stefan ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Crisis in Soviet Agriculture

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture
    This book, first published in 1984, analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union. It addresses the crisis in Soviet agriculture of the early 1980s, examining the problems of low productivity, adverse natural conditions and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The book’s analysis of the ‘crisis’ focuses on the growing gap between ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Private Agriculture in the Soviet Union

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Agriculture
    First published in 1989. Perestroika, it was widely believed, must succeed in agriculture before permanent change could be affected elsewhere in the Soviet economy. But Soviet agriculture had so far remained stubbornly inefficient and resistant to change. In this book Stefan Hedlund investigates the reasons for this state of affairs.The author gives an account of the emergence, development and ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Russian Path Dependence

    A People with a Troubled History

    by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless. Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back through the long sweep of Russian history. Decisions made in the distant past can fully influence ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Incentives and Economic Systems

    Proceedings of the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium, Frostavallen, 26-27 August 1985

    Edited by Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, Incentives and Economic Systems is a selection of papers presented at the Eighth Arne Ryde Symposium at Frostavallen, Sweden on how institutions attempt to guide individual behaviour by manipulating the social and economic incentive system. These economic and social aspects of incentives determine ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ behaviour by individuals and organizations ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Power and Legitimacy - Challenges from Russia

    Edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, Elena Namli ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power offer a contrast to Western experiences on which most political theory, formulated in the West, is ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model

    A legacy for Gorbachev

    by Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error. Economic rationality has been sacrificed to political expedients, and the cultural sphere has been put to use as a legitimating and rationalizing device. This book analyses the internal logic of this ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Russia Since 1980

    by Steven Rosefielde, Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    Russia Since 1980 recounts the epochal political, economic, and social changes that destroyed the Soviet Union, ushering in a perplexing new order. Two decades after Mikhail Gorbachev initiated regime-wrecking radical reforms, Russia has reemerged as a superpower. It has survived a hyperdepression, modernized, restored private property and business, adopted a liberal democratic persona, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Baltic States and the End of the Soviet Empire

    by Kristian Gerner, Stefan Hedlund ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: World Empires
    First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppressor?The topic of this book is the implosion of the Soviet empire. It tells the parallel stories of how the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled successfully to gain their ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD