How the Soviet Union Disappeared: An Essay on the Causes of Dissolution 9780822322351

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Автор: Wisla Suraska
Название: How the Soviet Union Disappeared: An Essay on the Causes of Dissolution
ISBN: 9780822322351
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История Европы

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Политология и политическая философия

Марксизм и коммунизм

Национализм

Политическая система и политические процессы

ISBN-10: 0822322358
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.00 кг.
Дата издания: 1998-12-11
Язык: English
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Основная тема: British & Irish history, HISTORY / Russia / General
Подзаголовок: An essay on the causes of dissolution
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Many theories have been offered to explain the disintegration of the Soviet Union, yet none sufficiently explain the speed and profundity of the empire’s collapse. In this powerful polemic, Wisla Suraska disputes popular interpretations of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and explains how theories, such as totalitarian theory, have failed to examine the exigencies of arbitrary government. At the center of Suraska’s own theories on the Soviet collapse is her claim that it came about not simply because it was an economically declining country that contained too many nationalities but because it was despotic and that despotism is unworkable in modern societies.
Using numerous secondary sources, recently published memoir literature, and new archival research, Suraska’s multidimensional study delves into the many factors involved in the dissolution of the Soviet empire—the role of Gorbachev and his contest with Yeltsin, the weakness of the Soviet state, and the poverty of ideas that informed perestroika. She also examines the complex relationship between the Communist Party, the KGB, and the military; the way Gorbachev dealt with the German question; and the rise of post-Marxist thought in the Soviet Union. Whether discussing how insufficient control over coercive forces or the growing strength of provincial barons impacted the collapse, Suraska furthers her argument that the explosion of nationalisms in the Soviet Union was as much activated by the breakdown of central structures as it actually contributed to the final demolition of the regime. In the end, How the Soviet Union Disappeared reveals Gorbachev’s perestroika as having been nothing short of a radical attempt to rebuild power that the Soviet center had lost in the post-Stalinist period.
In its questioning of the assumptions of most previous scholarship and discourse on the Soviet Union, this book will be of interest to Sovietologists, political scientists, and students of communism and nationalism.

How the Soviet Union Disappeared: An Essay on the Causes of Dissolution, Wisla Suraska