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This book, originally published in 1992, describes the Soviet environment at its crisis point in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The contributors examine the aftermath of Chernobyl, the catastrophic causes and effects of the Aral Sea's shrinkage, the environmental issues and public unrest during this environmentally turbulent period.

This book contains fresh approaches to the interaction between regime and society in twentieth-century Russia. It offers new answers to familiar questions: * How useful is 'totalitarianism' as a model to categorise authoritarian regimes? * Were Trotsky and Lenin dictators in waiting? * What opposition did intellectuals offer in the Soviet regime?

A central part in this drama is being played by political elites. These essays, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, analyse various aspects of the role being played by elites and leaders in Russian politics. Among the issues dealt with are: the origins of the Russian elites, including the issue of continuity with the Soviet past;

This volume provides a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups, their new political influence in the emergent democracies and their efforts to revive suppressed cultures.

The essays in this collection explore the social 'construction' of the Russian peasantry in the period between Emancipation and Collectivisation, and the impact of these constructions on Tsarist and Bolshevik agrarian policy.

Drawing on a selection of papers presented to the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies held in Warsaw in August 1995, the book presents a broad cross-section of thinking about postcommunist developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Early transition was characterized by debate over shock therapy and gradualism as alternative reform strategies. What implications does the old system have for the course of post-communist reforms? These are among the key issues analysed in this book, through a mix of conceptual analysis and an interesting selection of country studies.

This book examines some of the important linguistic changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe since 1991. Though it is early to draw definitive conclusions, the contributions provide a preliminary understanding of the new language situation of post-Soviet Russia.

This collection of essays looks at the impact on women of the political changes which have taken place in East-Central Europe since the 1930s.

When East European communism collapsed in the revolutions of 1989, the newly liberated countries discarded socialism altogether. For the first time, most of Eastern Europe experienced free elections and a multitude of parties. In this book, ten distinguished experts explore the transition to a market economy in Eastern Europe.

In this 1992 volume, leading international political economists provide an in-depth analysis of why the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are moving away from a centrally planned economy toward integration within the global economy and examine how they overcome their development lag and implement a restructuring policy.

First published in 1989 at a time when the eastern bloc in general was confronting major economic problems, the essays in this volume are written from an economic standpoint and combine both topicality and detailed scholarly analysis, addressing such significant topics as energy conservation, regional development and technological innovation.

This 1988 collection is derived from the Third World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, and provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet political and economic problems. It concentrates upon three major themes; the Soviet party apparat, socialization and political discourse, and social policy.

The late twentieth century witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Eastern Europe sprang free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the US-sponsored resolution in the UN permitting the use of force in the Gulf against one of its former allies.

Twentieth-Century Russian Literature is an edited collection of essays based on contributions to the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, held in Warsaw in 1995.

The study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society and this volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the field. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period.

This collection covers the early post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.

Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development.

In this 1992 volume, leading international political economists provide an in-depth analysis of why the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are moving away from a centrally planned economy toward integration within the global economy and examine how they overcome their development lag and implement a restructuring policy.

The study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society and this volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the field. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period.

First published in 1989 at a time when the eastern bloc in general was confronting major economic problems, the essays in this volume are written from an economic standpoint and combine both topicality and detailed scholarly analysis, addressing such significant topics as energy conservation, regional development and technological innovation.

Soviet policy towards the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America underwent substantial expansion and change during the three decades since Khrushchev first initiated efforts to break out of the USSR's international isolation. This 1988 volume examine various aspects of Soviet and East European policy towards the Third World.

This volume provides a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups, their new political influence in the emergent democracies and their efforts to revive suppressed cultures.

These original essays discuss Gorbachev and Soviet history, the changing nature of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s, the politics of shopfloor culture between the wars, and the evolution of the political elite from the 1930s to the 1990s.

The late twentieth century witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet domestic and foreign policy. Eastern Europe sprang free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the US-sponsored resolution in the UN permitting the use of force in the Gulf against one of its former allies.

These original essays discuss Gorbachev and Soviet history, the changing nature of mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s, the politics of shopfloor culture between the wars, and the evolution of the political elite from the 1930s to the 1990s.

In Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity, scholars from around the world examine the literatures of countries only recently coming into their own as distinct political and cultural identities.