An edition of Russia's bitter path to modernity
(2001)
Russia's bitter path to modernity
a history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras
by Alexander Chubarov
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Russia's bitter path to modernity: a history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface 1
Introduction 5
Part One: The Background19
1. "Old Regime" Russia21
Geopolitical Evolution of the Russian State 21
Paradoxes of Tsarist Russia 23
2. Political Culture 31
"Too Asiatic for the Europeans and too
European for the Asians" 32
Egalitarianism and Communalism 34
"Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationality" 36
Russian Contemporary Political Culture 38
3. Soviet Ideology 41
Main Tenets of Classical Marxism 41
Marxism-Leninism 44
Marxism versus Human Nature 45
4. The Soviet Political System50
Dictatorship of the Proletariat 50
"All Power to the Soviets!" 51
The Party of a New Type 52
The "Party-State" 54
The Nomenklatura 58
5. Soviet Nationalities61
The "Red Federated Empire" 61
Sorting out the "Nationalities Question" 65
6. Serfdom-Capitalism-Socialism72
Russia's Early Experience with Capitalism 72
Tsarist Industrialization 74
The Command Economy 76
Part Two: The Socialist Experiment81
7. The Beginnings of the Socialist Transformation83
Consolidating One-Party Dictatorship 83
Civil War and War Communism: 1918-20 84
New Economic Policy: 1921-28 89
8. "Great Leap" to Socialism92
The Rise of Stalin 92
The Industrialization Debate: 1925-28 94
Collectivization of Agriculture 97
9. Stalinism101
Industrialization 101
Five-Year Plans 103
Characteristics of Stalinism 106
10. From World War to Cold War111
The Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact 111
The Great Patriotic War: 1941-45 115
Turning the Tide 119
Stalinism versus Fascism 122
The Onset of the Cold War 125
11. Khrushchev and De-Stalinization130
Stalin's Legacy 130
The "Secret" Speech 133
"Khrushchevism" 138
12. Brezhnev's "Mature" Socialism 143
Advent of Brezhnev 143
Roots of Stagnation 145
The Soviet Decline 147
13. Cracks in the Soviet Monolith151
Models of Soviet/Russian Power 151
The Rise of Cultural and Academic Pluralism 154
Dissidence 159
Totalitarianism with Corporatist and Pluralist Subsystems 163
Part Three: From Reform Socialism to Deformed Capitalism167
14. The Command Economy in Crisis169
Internal and External Pressures for Economic Reform 169
Gorbachev's Perestroika 171
Perestroika's Economic Strategies and Their Results 174
15. The Collapse of the Political System179
"Democratization" and "New Thinking" 179
The Course of Political Reform 181
Results of Political Reform 187
16. Unraveling the Unitary State190
The Rise of Popular and Nationalist Movements 190
Key Factors in the USSR's Collapse 194
17. Return to a Market Economy198
"Shock Therapy" and Its Consequences 198
Nomenklatura Privatization 203
"Crony Capitalism" 205
18. Handicaps of Russia's Capitalist Transformation210
The Role of National Characteristics 210
The "Survival" Economy 214
19. The Yeltsin Era219
"Democrator" 219
Parties and Elections 224
Yeltsin's Legacy 231
20. Russia in Search of an Identity237
The Commonwealth of Independent States 237
Post-Soviet Geopolitics 239
Russian Federalism 243
The Chechen Problem 246
21. Prospects for the New Century254
Who Is Putin? 254
Recentralizing the State 259
"Deprivatizing" the State 263
"Controlled" Democracy 269
Notes 277
Selected Bibliography of English-Language Sources285
Selected Bibliography of Russian-Language Sources302
Index 311.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-310) and index.
Continues: The fragile empire : a history of Imperial Russia.
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