The Soviet Union: Empire, Nation, and SystemTransaction Publishers - 471 من الصفحات Political change in the Soviet Union never seemed more likely than in the period of glasnost and perestroika. The Soviet Union: 1917-1991 examines some of the less well explored areas of Soviet political and economic life to develop a feasible set of alternatives for future Soviet development and to establish which ones the system is predisposed to select. Katsenelinboigen takes on these difficult questions. Is it wise to develop glasnost in ways that allow masses to participate in the solution of strategic national problems? Can Soviet military expenses be reduced only to direct ones or is the whole Soviet economy military oriented? What explains widespread corruption among Soviet officials? Can market institutions be introduced into the Soviet economy, and if so, how is this best accomplished? Rather than focusing on a single dimension, such as authoritarianism versus democracy, his analysis incorporates multidimensional perspectives (among them, pluralism, division of powers and openness participation of competent and responsible people in decision making) which permit a more precise understanding of the limits of present options and allow him to develop new policy prospects. Although this book is about the Soviet Union, the approaches Katsenelinboigen uses have application in other contexts. His discussion of inflation for example and why it is found in planned as well as market economies has important implications for many developing countries. It will be of interest to those who seek a new perspective on events in the Soviet Union, as well as specialists in international relations, political science, and economics. |
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... period of glasnost and peres- oika . What are the chances that the Soviet Union's traditions of authoritar- sanism , imperial expansionism . na- itionalism , and anti - Semitism can be changed in the period of glasnost and perestroika ...
... period marked by the rapid development of super - lethal weaponry , whose mere accumulation might bring the world to the brink of catastrophe : it is . due to nonmilitary but dangerous new technologies . also becoming a vital problem ...
... period of trials and errors . Gorbachev has embarked on a policy of balancing a greater stability of the inner core of the Russian empire with considerable fluidity throughout its East European periphery . The book consists of six parts ...
... period — only the rationalizations for it occasionally changed . Because of poor compati- bility between the cultures of the Russians and the Jews . it is quite possible that the Jewish problem in the Soviet Union is insoluble . In the ...
... period of economic stagnation : the nature of inflation and corruption , etc. - have received scarcely any serious critical examination in the U.S.S.R. For too many years Soviet social scientists have lagged far behind their Western ...
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A Multidimensional Approach to the Soviet Political System | 29 |
Who Is Gorbachev? | 65 |
Expansion of the Soviet Empire | 93 |
The Military Imperial Orientation of Soviet Society | 111 |
The Structure of the Second Imperial Circle and How It Might | 127 |
Russophilism | 149 |
Some Notes on Soviet AntiSemitism | 169 |
Inflation in the Soviet Union | 255 |
Corruption in the Soviet Union | 269 |
Multicolored Markets in the Soviet Economy | 291 |
The Anatomy and Physiology of Soviet Economics | 331 |
The Development of Mathematical Economics in the Soviet | 361 |
Jews in Soviet Economics | 391 |
The Story of a Favorite Jew Or Aron Katsenelinboigen is | 425 |
Conclusion | 449 |
The Solzhenitsyn Phenomenon | 207 |
General Observations on Soviet Economic Mechanisms | 223 |
Index | 465 |