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  • Science and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe

    The Reform of Higher Education

    by Anthony Tillet, Barry Lesser ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    The political upheavals in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe have produced profound social, educational, and economic changes. Once a centerpiece of the communist state, the study of science and technology in the university has now fallen victim to economic and social disarray. Support for the teaching and funding of science and technology is of primary ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Bound to Lead

    The Changing Nature of American Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **A pre-eminent scholar challenges the notion of inevitable American decline, arguing that the nation can still lead in a rapidly shifting world order“Nye marshals his wide grasp of history, politics, and economics to produce a compelling book.” —The Economist**In this pioneering work, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., reckons with the enduring claim that American decline is inevitable. He argues that the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Class Theory and History

    Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

    by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff ...
    Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Europe's Growth Champion

    Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland

    by Marcin Piatkowski ...
    What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Taking Stock of Shock

    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein ...
    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Edited by Andrey Makarychev, Andre Mommen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika

    by Olga Bain ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Uncertain Transition

    Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

    by Michael Burawoy, Sarah Ashwin, Gerald Creed, Elizabeth Dunn, Caroline Humphrey, Andrew Lass, David Woodruff, Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh ...
    The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models-whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity.The ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Ukraine and the Empire of Capital

    From Marketisation to Armed Conflict

    by Yuliya Yurchenko ...
    Since 1991, nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil, with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments. Now, its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country. In order to understand these dramatic events, Yuliya Yurchenko looks to the country’s post-Soviet past in this ambitious analysis of ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Solidarity to Sellout

    by Tadeusz Kowalik ...
    Translated by Eliza Lewandowska ...
    In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing" socialism has collapsed, capitalism has been restored, and Poland is now among the most unequal ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

    The Post-Socialist States

    by Michael Bradshaw, Alison Stenning ...
    Series series Developing Areas Research Group
    A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD