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The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century

How the Past Informs the Present

von: Barbara Ann Chotiner, Linda J. Cook, Andrea Chandler, Gerald M. Easter, Michael S. Klecheski, Bruce Parrott, Cynthia Roberts, Mikael Sandberg, Kate Schecter, Andrew Sherlock, Thomas Sherlock, Jack Snyder, Peter H. Solomon, Susan Gross Solomon, Stephen Wegren
44,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	28.06.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9781793636102
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	329

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Titelbeschreibung

The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division between Western and Russian influence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to renewed tensions and international crisis. China, which presents major challenges to the US, Europe, and the global order, has emerged as a critical actor in the international conflict. The need to understand the internal dynamics and international behavior of communist and authoritarian regimes is more urgent at this time. The expertise provided by the volume’s contributors is especially timely, offering new insights into the past and contemporary politics of these states, the agendas driving their behavior, regimes’ domestic strengths and weaknesses, and the role of leaders’ differing perceptions in exacerbating international conflict. Practitioners demonstrate how such knowledge can inform effective policy and ameliorative efforts.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This volume presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners highly relevant to contemporary events in Russia, Ukraine and other postcommunist states that are challenging the international order. Contributors provide new insights into the politics of these states, agendas driving their behavior, and how leaders’ differing perceptions produce

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: To Bialer’s Successors: How the Soviet Past Informs the Post-Soviet Present by Jack Snyder
Acknowledgments
Introduction: <a>Seweryn Bialer: Scholar, Teacher, </a>Mentor by Linda J. Cook

Part I: The Study of Leaders and Leadership in Domestic and International Politics
 
Chapter 1: Haunted: Cold War Ghosts and the United States in an Era of Disruption by Bruce Parrott 
Chapter 2: The Russo-Georgian War and the Turn to Great Power Rivalry by Thomas Sherlock and Andrew Sherlock
Chapter 3: Trapped on the Eve of War, 1941: Stalin and His Generals Failing Separately and Together by Cynthia Roberts
Chapter 4: Recovering Institutional Authenticity: Redeveloping the Central Organs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1953-64, and Effects by Barbara Ann Chotiner
Chapter 5: Populism in Power? Discourses of Leadership in Putin’s Russia, 2000-2020 by Andrea Chandler
Chapter 6: Avoiding the Succession Trap: Leadership Change in Survivor Communist Regimes by Gerald M. Easter<a></a>
Chapter 7: Russia and Post-Soviet Political Institutions: An Evolutionary Comparison of Regime Types by Mikael Sandberg

Part II: The Realms of Policy and Practice

Chapter 8: East European Public Health and the Cold War: In Search of Circulation by Susan Gross Solomon
Chapter 9: Food Security and Stability in Contemporary Russia by Stephen Wegren
Chapter 10: Applied Sovietology: Refugee Claims from the Post-Soviet Space<a> by Peter H. Solomon</a> Jr.
Chapter 11: The Tenacity of Conscience in the Face of Global Upheaval by Kate Schecter
Chapter 12: Studying under Professor Seweryn Bialer: Recollections and Lessons Gleaned for Career in Diploma by Michael S. Klecheski

Rezension

The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century: How the Past Informs the Present is a comprehensive and impressive collection of essays linking the Soviet past to the contemporary period. The team of authors assembled by Cook and Chotiner represents some of the most experienced and creative analysts of the Soviet system and the post-communist world. This authoritative collection is a must read for those who want to know more about the complex ways in which the communist past informs and influences the leadership decisions and policies of the present.

Autorenportrait

Barbara Ann Chotiner is professor emerita of political science at The University of Alabama.
Linda J. Cook is professor emerita of political science and Slavic studies at Brown University.