Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution - Tapa blanda

Fish, M. Steven

 
9780691029146: Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution
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ISBN 10: 0691029148 ISBN 13: 9780691029146
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1996

Sinopsis

This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the autonomous political organizations that responded to liberalization. Extensive study of these political groups, in Moscow and several provincial cities, has led M. Steven Fish to conclude that they were shaped to a far greater degree by the nature of the Soviet state than by socioeconomic modernization, political culture, native psychology, or Russian historical tradition. Fish's statist theory of societal change in Russia yields a powerful explanation of why Russia's new political society differs radically not only from the "totalized" sub-jugated country of the pre-1985 period but also from the "civil societies" found in the West and in many developing countries. In addition, the author shows how the legacy of the Soviet experience continues to influence the development-arguably the underdevelopment-of representative political institutions in post-Soviet Russia, making the establishment of stable democracy unlikely in the near term. This book proposes a novel and theoretically sophisticated way to study Russian politics. It offers a rigorous approach to understanding social movements, political party formation, regime change, and democratization in general. While focusing primarily on a single country, it is vigorously comparative at the same time.

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Acerca del autor

M. Steven Fish is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

De la contraportada

"[Democracy from Scratch] will doubtless become a standard in the field.. . . Among its fine attributes are its solid grounding in comparative political theory, its conceptual originality, its richness of information, and the sound interpretations that prevade it."--Michael Urban, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691029148
ISBN 13 
9780691029146
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
316
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ISBN 10:  0691037035 ISBN 13:  9780691037035
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1995
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