Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking the Soviet collapse : sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia / edited by Michael Cox.

Publication

London ; New York : Pinter, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Cox, Michael.

Description

ix, 294 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Soviet Union > Historiography
• Soviet Union > Study and teaching
• Soviet Union > Politics and government
• Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-286) and index.

Contents

Whatever happened to the USSR? critical reflections on Soviet studies / Michael Cox -- Sovietology : who got it right and who got it wrong? and why? / Peter Rutland -- Soviet studies and the collapse of the USSR : in defence of realism / Terry McNeill -- Soviet studies and the collapse of the USSR : in defence of Marxism / Hillel H. Ticktin -- Soviet society and American Sovietologists : a study in failure? / Vladimir Shlapentokh -- Soviet society and American Soviet studies : a study in success? / Robert V. Daniels -- Rethinking the transition : 1991 and beyond / Stephen White -- Social theory, the collapse of state socialism and after : convergence or divergence? / David Lane -- Does post-Sovietology have a future? / Mike Urban and M. Steven Fish -- Russian political evolution : a structural approach / Richard Sakwa -- Social science, 'Slavistics' and post-Soviet studies / Ron Hill -- From collapse to disintegration : the Russian economic transition / Bob Arnot -- Russia : tragedy or transition? / Stephen F. Cohen -- So what did collapse in 1991? reflections on a revolution betrayed / Carl G. Jacobsen.

ISBN

• 1855673215
• 1855673223 (pbk.)

LCCN

98030260

OCLC

ocm39516035

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries