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No detailed description available for "The New Man in Soviet Psychology".

No detailed description available for "European and Muscovite".

No detailed description available for "Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism".

No detailed description available for "Russian Liberalism".

No detailed description available for "Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia".

No detailed description available for "How Russia Is Ruled".

In this book Bessinger traces the rise and decline of administrative strategies throughout Soviet history, focusing on the roles of managerial technique and disciplinary coercion.

No detailed description available for "Managerial Power and Soviet Politics".

No detailed description available for "Marxism".

No detailed description available for "Danilevsky".

Brudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy.

In illuminating analyses of major texts as well as lesser known but influential works, Andreas Schoenle surveys the literary travelogue-a form marked by a fully developed narrator's voice, interpretive impressions, scenic descriptions, and extended narrative-from its emergence in Russia to the end of the Romantic era.

Solnick argues that the Soviet system fell victim not to stalemate at the top nor to revolution from below, but to opportunism from within. In case studies on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription, he tells the story from a new perspective, testing Western theories of reform.

A critical assessment of the implications of the "social contract" - a tacit agreement between the post-Stalin regime and the working class whereby the state provided economic and social security in return for the workers' political compliance.

No detailed description available for "How the Soviet System Works".

A foremost Russian writer of the Soviet period, Bulgakov (1891-1940) has attracted much critical attention, yet Haber is the first to explore in depth his formative years. Blending biography and literary analysis of motifs, story, and characterization, Haber tracks one writer's answer to the dislocations of revolution, civil war, and Bolshevism.

Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.

Through Graham, executed engineer Peter Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. Palchinsky's story is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure.

Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval.

No detailed description available for "The Soviet Citizen".

No detailed description available for "Dilemmas of Progress in Tsarist Russia".

No detailed description available for "Terror and Progress--USSR".

No detailed description available for "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao".

For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union.

No detailed description available for "The Economics of Soviet Steel".

No detailed description available for "The Soviet Youth Program".

No detailed description available for "Accounting in Soviet Planning and Management".