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Changing Values in Post-Stalin Russia
From the late 1950s to the early 1980s, the Soviet people's acceptance of official state ideology was gradually replaced by an emphasis on the family ...
Its Negative and Positive Effects
Contemporary social science avoids the discussion of fear as a major element of social life and as a factor that shapes social order and the quality o...
Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics
In the wake of the USSR's collapse, more than 25 million Russians found themselves living outside Russian territory, their status ambiguous. Equally u...
The Post-Stalin Era
In this unprecedented work on the status and role of intellectuals in Soviet political life, a former Soviet sociologist maps out the delicate, often ...
How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed
Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and R...
A New Perspective on the Post-Soviet Era
The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review...
Demonstrates how the emergence of private property and a market economy after the Soviet Union's collapse enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneo...
This book is an autobiography of a well-known American sociologist who first rose to prominence in the Soviet Union. The author tries, with utmost hon...
Snapshots from 1985-1991
Between 1985 and 1991, the Soviet Union was shaken to its core by a series of remarkable social and political developments. Throughout the period, the...
Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society
Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and ...
Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society
The book analyzes Soviet society as a 'hard reality', emphasizes the varying perceptions of it in the Soviet Union and the US, and insists that, while...
This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and ...
The Provinces Versus The Center In Russia
This book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces—an important issue in any society—using Russia as a case study. It analy...
The Case Of Violent Internal Repression
This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the anteced...
Ideals and Practices
Based on Soviet sociological studies, Soviet fiction and film, and mass media reports, this volume explores the ways in which Soviet attitudes about l...
Ideological Conflict and Social Reality
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of official ideology on the presentation of social ...
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The Case of Violent Internal Repression
Written in the spirit of comparative and historical analysis, this book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces—an important...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a radical metamorphosis took place in Eastern Europe as major power structures were replaced by new systems of ...
Mythology and Pragmatism in Interaction
This is the first book to view Soviet ideology and public opinion from the perspective of Soviet mythology. The author puts forth the idea that mythol...
Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America
In its application, the First Amendment has become one-sided. Even though America is virtually drowning in speech, the First Amendment only applies to...
Responses to Brezhnev's Stagnation
The mid-1970s found almost all spheres of Soviet society in economic, social, and moral decline - a decline that generated conflicting ideologies offe...
Sovereign Defender Or Cowboy Nation?
Following the 9/11 attacks on America, the initial 'flood of sympathy' for America's tragedy soon dried up and was followed by a wide range of opinion...