The Nature of Soviet Power
Title | The Nature of Soviet Power PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Bruno |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2016-04-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 110714471X |
This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.
Soviet Power
Title | Soviet Power PDF eBook |
Author | Jordan A. Hodgkins |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1975-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0837184916 |
This book investigates the energy resources of the Soviet Union and how they are being utilized for increased industrial production.
The Nature of Soviet Power
Title | The Nature of Soviet Power PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Bruno |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2016-04-11 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 131665429X |
During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests, above all, that environmental relations fundamentally shaped the Soviet experience. Interactions with the natural world both enabled industrial livelihoods and curtailed socialist promises. Nature itself was a participant in the communist project. Taking a long-term comparative perspective, The Nature of Soviet Power sees Soviet environmental history as part of the global pursuit for unending economic growth among modern states. This in-depth exploration of railroad construction, the mining and processing of phosphorus-rich apatite, reindeer herding, nickel and copper smelting, and energy production in the region examines Soviet cultural perceptions of nature, plans for development, lived experiences, and modifications to the physical world. While Soviet power remade nature, nature also remade Soviet power.
Soviet Power and the Countryside
Title | Soviet Power and the Countryside PDF eBook |
Author | N. Melvin |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2003-11-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230598528 |
Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.
Limits to Soviet Power
Title | Limits to Soviet Power PDF eBook |
Author | Rajan Menon |
Publisher | First Glance Books |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Power (Social sciences) |
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The purpose of this book is not to assert that there are limits to Soviet power but, through an examination of selected aspects of Soviet foreign and domestic policy, to understand what limits there are and to assess their significance and severity. The authors have assumed that the vast size of the Soviets' nuclear arsenal and considerable energy reserves, and that their vigorous and communicative new leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, their record of forceful interventions in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, and Africa, and other indicators of ability to exert influence and control in world affairs were recognizable to most Americans.
Provincial Landscapes
Title | Provincial Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Donald J. Raleigh |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2011-12-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822970619 |
The closed nature of the Soviet Union, combined with the WestÆs intellectual paradigm of Communist totalitarianism prior to the 1970s, have led to a one-dimensional view of Soviet history, both in Russia and the West. The opening of former Soviet archives allows historians to explore a broad array of critical issues at the local level. Provincial Landscapes is the first publication to begin filling this enormous gap in scholarship on the Soviet Union, pointing the way to additional work that will certainly force major reevaluations of the nationÆs history.Focusing on the years between the Revolution and StalinÆs death, the contributors to this volume address a variety of topics, including how political events and social engineering played themselves out at the local level; the construction of Bolshevik identities, including class, gender, ethnicity, and place; the Soviet cultural project; and the hybridization of Soviet cultural forms. In showing how the local is related to the larger society, the essays decenter standard narratives of Soviet history, enrich the understanding of major events and turning points in that history, and provide a context for the highly visible socio-political and cultural role individual Russian provinces began to play after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russian Peasants and Soviet Power
Title | Russian Peasants and Soviet Power PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Lewin |
Publisher | CNIB, [197-] |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780393007527 |
"A most important and pioneering book--the only full-scale study of the Russian revolution and the peasant from 1917 through the first wave of mass collectivization in 1930." --Stephen F. Cohen