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1 online resource |
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Preface -- Introduction -- Reshaping the Russian State -- A New Russia -- Or the Same Old Russia? -- Protecting Fair Competition in the New Russia -- Reform in Russia's Regions -- Federalism, Local Self-Government, and National Renewal in Russia -- Coping with New Economic Rules -- The New Stage of Economic Reforms in Russia -- Building Houses for the Newly Affluent Near Moscow -- A Pioneer in Russia's First Open Grain Market -- Fighting for Labor Rights in a Transitional Economy -- Transforming Russian Political Mores -- Striving Toward Rule of Law -- The Legal Profession and Civil Society in Russia -- Freedom of Speech and the Rule of Law -- Where Society Must Rein In Government -- Civil Society Building Blocks -- Nongovernmental Organizations -- On the Path to a New Russia -- Empowering Russia's Women -- Reviving the Russian Orthodox Church -- Caring for the Homeless in St. Petersburg -- What Future Awaits the Russian Press? -- My Life, My Fate -- The Rise and Fall of Environmental Protection As a National Security Issue -- Preserving the Culture, Modernizing Education -- A Sad Tale About a Happy Fate -- It's Not Easy Being a Scholar in Modern Russia -- Experimenting with Liberal Education in Russia -- The Architecture of Humanism in Russian Higher Education -- A Theater for Oneself -- Russia's Literary Revival -- Epilogue: Will Russia's Terrible Years Be Repeated? |
| Summary |
The young Russian men and women who record in these pages the hopes, fears, triumphs, and tragedies their country has undergone in recent years-altering their own lives profoundly in the process-all come from the first post-Soviet generation to achieve positions of leadership in Russia. They report on five challenges central to Russia's survival and stabilization: reshaping the state, coping with new economic rules, striving toward the rule of law, building a civil society, and preserving the national culture and educational capacity. They love their country, while understanding all too well the crippling psychological legacy of seventy years of a dictatorship that was both cunning and cruel in dispensing a plausible utopian myth and exacting extraordinary sacrifices in the name of that myth. They understand the acute sense of disorientation that overcame all generations when the USSR abruptly dissolved in 1991 and the Communist Party simultaneously lost much, if not all, of its power. As several of our authors recall, it was like waking up one morning and finding yourself a citizen of an entirely different country, meanwhile discovering that your parents were not your real parents and that you had acquired a brand new surname |
| Notes |
Originally published 2001 by Westview Press |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Isham, Heyward |
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HISTORY -- General.
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Economic history
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Intellectual life
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
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Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92004886
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Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003621
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Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005598
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Russia (Federation)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Isham, Heyward.
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Shklyar, Natan M.
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Matlock, Jack F.
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| ISBN |
0429305257 |
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9780429305252 |
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9781000238730 |
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1000238733 |
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9781000310610 |
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1000310612 |
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9781000274677 |
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1000274675 |
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