Opis: Revolutionary Passage - Marc Garcelon, Garcelon

"Revolutionary Passage" is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia, during fifteen crucial years. Garcelon traces this history from perestroika to the rise of Vladimir Putin, and argues that the pressures put on the soviet system by Gorbachev's reforms gave birth to movements for democratic reform, but that the political arrangements that gave rise to the fall of communism in fact killed hopes for reform; Garcelon shows that these arrangements have been part of Russian history from the czarist era through the communist and contemporary periods. The heart of this book is a close examination of the DemRossiia movement, which Garcelon argues helped to dismantle the soviet system, but was also post-soviet Russia's first victim as the country realigned itself with external forces (like globalization and US-style economic reforms) and internal forces (such as traditional rigidities in Russian society and the subordination of movements to Boris Yeltsin's leadership). "The book is helpful in recalling and explaining what transpired in that turbulent period." Slavic Review "Garcelon makes an important contribution to the understanding of the role the educated middle class, intellectuals, and experts played during Gorbachev's reforms and how they were abandoned by Yeltsin. The book offers a fine-tuned presentation of the social structure of late Soviet Union and the early month of post-Soviet Russia." Ivan Szelenyi "Garcelon presents a detailed examination of an important story: the rise and fall of the Democratic Russia movement (DR). He demonstrates persuasively that the unleashing of perestroika precipitated the creation of an asymmetrical matrix of political opportunities that was advantageous to political entrepreneurs networking within the ranks of the Moscow-based intelligentsia...One of Garcelon's major accomplishments is that his carefully crafted research, which illuminates the organizational genesis of DR and the social profile of its activists, provides a useful map of politically mobilized, late-Soviet Moscow. The other accomplishment for which Garcelon should be commended is his cogent analysis of DR's heterogeneity." Perspectives on Politics "Garcelon successfully employs the feudal model as an explanation for the failure of central authority and the later rise of violent oligarchies by the last 1990s in Russia...This work with its feudal paradigm provides both a valuable reference for the period as well as a new methodology for examining Russia's political and economic future." Sibrica 2007Introduction: Passages; One: The Specialist Rebellion in Moscow and the Genesis of a Revolutionary Situation; Two: The Rise of Democratic Russia; Three: Democrats on the Offensive; Four: August 1991 and the Decline of Russia's Democratic Movement; Five: Interregnum

Szczegóły: Revolutionary Passage - Marc Garcelon, Garcelon

Tytuł: Revolutionary Passage
Autor: Marc Garcelon, Garcelon
Producent: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592133628
Rok produkcji: 2005
Ilość stron: 336
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.44 kg

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