The Legacy of the Soviet Union

by W. Slater (Editor), A. Wilson (Editor)

Overview

The Legacy of the Soviet Union offers a distillation by a group of eminent scholars of their experience of the post-Soviet years. Analysis of the post-Soviet landscape is accompanied by meditations on the impact of the post-Soviet transition on both policy-makers and academics. The book therefore examines both assumptions of 'transition' and reconsiders the experience of Soviet communism in the light of its demise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349513772
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/20/2004
Edition description:	1st ed. 2004
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

W. E. BUTLER Professor of Comparative Law, University of London, UK BHAVNA DAVE Lecturer in Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK MARTIN DEWHIRST Glasgow University, UK PETER J. S. DUNCAN Senior Lecturer in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK SHEILA FITZPATRICK Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History, University of Chicago, USA VLADIMIR GEL'MAN Lecturer in Russian Politics, European University of St Petersburg, Russia PHILIP HANSON Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham (retired) ALENA LEDENEVA Reader in Russian Politics, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK DOV LYNCH Lecturer in War Studies, King's College, London, UK VERA TOLZ Professor of Contemporary Russian History, University of Salford, UK JANINE WEDEL Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements; A.Wilson INTRODUCTION The Soviet Union in Retrospect; S.Fitzpatrick PART I: NATIONAL IDENTITY A Future Russia: A Nation-State or a Multi-National Federation?; V.Tolz Rival Versions of East Slavic Identity in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus; A.Wilson Separatist States and Post-Soviet Conflicts; D.Lynch Management of Ethnic Relations in Kazakhstan: Stability Without Success; B.Dave PART II: THE ECONOMY Transactions in the US-Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency and Russia's Decline; J.Wedel Blat Lessons: Networks, Institutions, Unwritten Rules; A.Ledeneva Administrative Regions and the Economy; P.Hanson PART III: POLITICS, LAW AND FOREIGN POLICY Law Reform and Civic Culture; W.Butler Censorship and Restrictions of Freedom of Speeach in Russia 1986 - 1991-2001; M.Dewhirst Politics Beyond the Garden Ring: Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience; V.Gel'man Westernism, Eurasianism and Pragmatism: The Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States, 1991-2001; P.J.S.Duncan CONCLUSION Conclusions: Stalin's Death 50 Years On; W.Slater