Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Witnessing the Soviet twilight : accounts of Americans in the U.S.S.R. on the eve of its collapse / edited by Dorothy S. McClellan
Published Jefferson : McFarland & Co., ©2014

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages)
Contents Introduction / Dorothy S. McClellan -- State of the Soviet Union : view from the ivory tower / Dorothy S. McClellan and James E. McClellan, Jr -- Moral and spiritual changes / Howard L. Parsons -- Coaching Soviet baseball : excerpts from a sociologist's journal / William J. Byrne III -- Perestroika and ideology / John J. Neumaier -- Russia between the Union and the Commonwealth : new Carpetbaggers and old dreams / Carla Lipsig-Mumme -- Worker self-management in Soviet theory and practice / Aaron Bindman -- The crisis of Soviet legitimacy / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Moscow memoir : on the status of women / Freda Casner -- Perestroika and the internationalization of Russian higher education : the summer of 1990 / Donald A. Biggs -- Perestroika in philosophy : report from Moscow State University / Dorothy S. McClellan and James E. McClellan, Jr -- Why, when and how we lost Russia / James E. McClellan, Jr -- The universality of liberal capitalism and the possibility of renewed socialism : reflections on the Soviet coup of August 1991 / James Lawler
Summary More than 20 years have passed since the fall of the Soviet empire. This book provides an intimate look at how Americans resident in the Soviet Union in its final days described this unprecedented moment in history. North American scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, psychology, women's studies, criminal justice, labor relations, religion and education present their insights into the dramatic events that marked the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition to the Commonwealth of Independent States. As glasnost and perestroika developed, many Russians grew critical of t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Americans -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Social change -- Soviet Union -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Americans
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005836
Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991 -- Biography
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1970-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125857
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author McClellan, Dorothy S.
ISBN 9781476614960
1476614962
9780786479443
0786479442