| Description |
xxvii, 330 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Keyward Isham -- Introduction / Richard Pipes -- 1. By Candelight, Near My Beloved / Anatolii Pristavkin -- 2. In My Beginning Is My End: Traditional Values in Russian Social Life and Thought / Vyacheslav Ivanov -- 3. Who Are We? / Fazil Iskander -- 4. I Object: What Constitutes the Tragedy of Russian History / Dmitrii Likhachev -- 5. New Dangers, New Hopes / Daniil Granin -- 6. Russia's Silver Age, Yesterday and Today: Questions in the Void / Konstantin Azadovskii -- 7. "But Where Is the Tsar?" / Ales Adamovich -- 8. The Minefield of Russian Constitutionalism: Before and After October 1993 / Leonid Batkin -- 9. Modern Russia and the Ghost of Weimar Germany / Galina Starovoitova -- 10. The Sign of Our Times: Democracy, Authoritarianism, or ... / Denis Dragunskii -- 11. The First Phase of Economic Reform in Russia: What Can We Expect in the 1990s? / Nikolai Shmelev -- 12. Separatism and Federalism in Contemporary Russia / Emil Payin |
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13. Fitting the Punishment to the Crime, and Politics Too / Arkadii Vaksberg -- 14. The Presidency in Russia: Evolution and Prospects / Alexander M. Yakovlev -- 15. The Religious and Spiritual Factor in the Making of a New Russia / Vitalii Borovoi -- 16. Reviving the Humanities in Modern Russia / Iurii Afanas'ev -- Epilogue: Of Easter Eggs, Black Holes, and Heroes / Andrei Voznesenskii -- Appendix: New Russia in Search of an Identity / Sergei Filatov and Liudmila Vorontsova -- Chronology: Major Events of 1985-1993, from the Appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev to the December 1993 Elections -- Biographical Notes: Persons Mentioned in the Text |
| Notes |
Translated from Russian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Russian.
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001058
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USSR -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125764
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| Author |
Isham, Heyward.
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| LC no. |
94038420 |
| ISBN |
1563244357 (alk. paper) |
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1563244365 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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