Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system. And finally, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of strikes by new, independent miners’ unions were central to overturning the Stalinist system.
Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers’ resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.
Автор: Kellogg, Steven Название: Island Of The Skog ISBN: 0140546499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140546491 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 4900.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Kellogg, Steven Название: Best Friends ISBN: 0140546073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140546071 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 4900.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kellogg, Steven ; Kellogg, Steven Название: The Missing Mitten Mystery ISBN: 0142301922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142301920 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 5510.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kellogg, Steven Название: Jack and the Beanstalk (PB) illustr. ISBN: 0688152813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780688152819 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kellogg, Steven Название: Can I Keep Him? ISBN: 014054867X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140548679 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 4900.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Steven Kellogg Название: The Mysterious Tadpole ISBN: 0142401404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142401408 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 5510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kellogg John Harvey Название: Rational Hydrotherapy V1 ISBN: 1162592036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162592039 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 62470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by S?rgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots, Pedro Meira Monteiro contends that Roots of Brazil is an essential work for understanding Brazil and the current impasses of politics in Latin America. Meira Monteiro demonstrates that the ideas expressed in Roots of Brazil have taken on new forms and helped to construct some of the most lasting images of the country, such as the "cordial man," a central concept that expresses the Ibero-American cultural and political experience and constantly wavers between liberalism's claims to impersonality and deeply ingrained forms of personalism. Meira Monteiro examines in particular how "cordiality" reveals the everlasting conflation of the public and the private spheres in Brazil. Despite its ambivalent relationship to liberal democracy, Roots of Brazil may be seen as part of a Latin Americanist assertion of a shared continental experience, which today might extend to the idea of solidarity across the so-called Global South. Taking its cue from Buarque de Holanda, The Other Roots investigates the reasons why national discourses invariably come up short, and shows identity to be a poetic and political tool, revealing that any collectivity ultimately remains intact thanks to the multiple discourses that sustain it in fragile, problematic, and fascinating equilibrium.
Автор: Tranjan J. Ricardo Название: Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins ISBN: 0268042403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268042400 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The largely successful trajectory of participatory democracy in post-1988 Brazil is well documented, but much less is known about its origins in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins, J. Ricardo Tranjan recounts the creation of participatory democracy in Brazil. He positions the well-known Porto Alegre participatory budgeting at the end of three interrelated and partially overlapping processes: a series of incremental steps toward broader political participation taking place throughout the twentieth century; short-lived and only partially successful attempts to promote citizen participation in municipal administration in the 1970s; and setbacks restricting direct citizen participation in the 1980s. What emerges is a clearly delineated history of how socioeconomic contexts shaped Brazil’s first participatory administrations.
Tranjan first examines Brazil’s long history of institutional exclusion of certain segments of the population and controlled inclusion of others, actions that fueled nationwide movements calling for direct citizen participation in the 1960s. He then presents three case studies of municipal administrations in the late 1970s and early 1980s that foreground the impact of socioeconomic factors in the emergence, design, and outcome of participatory initiatives. The contrast of these precursory experiences with the internationally known 1990s participatory models shows how participatory ideals and practices responded to the changing institutional context of the 1980s. The final part of his analysis places developments in participatory discourses and practices in the 1980s within the context of national-level political-institutional changes; in doing so, he helps bridge the gap between the local-level participatory democracy and democratization literatures.
In Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond, Barry S. Levitt answers urgent questions about executive power in “new” democracies. He examines in rich detail the case of Peru, from President Alan Garc?a’s first term (1985–1990), to the erosion of democracy under President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), through the interim government of Valent?n Paniagua (2000–2001) and the remarkable, if rocky, renewal of democracy culminating in Alejandro Toledo's 2001–2006 presidency. This turbulent experience with democracy brings into clear focus the functioning of formal political institutions—constitutions and electoral laws, presidents and legislatures, political parties and leaders—while also exposing the informal side of Peru’s national politics over the course of two decades.
Levitt's study of politics in Peru also provides a test case for his regional analysis of cross-national differences and change over time in presidential power across eighteen Latin American countries. In Peru and throughout Latin America, Levitt shows, the rule of law itself and the organizational forms of political parties have a stronger impact on legislative-executive relations than do most of the institutional traits and constitutional powers that configure the formal "rules of the game" for high politics. His findings, and their implications for improving the quality of new democracies everywhere, will surprise promoters, practitioners, and scholars of democratic politics alike.
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