1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt
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Anti-communism
Apparatchik
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Authoritarianism
Bolsheviks
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Civil disobedience
Civil society
Coalition government
Communism
Consociationalism
Decentralization
Demagogue
Democratic consolidation
Democratic Movement (France)
Democratic Party of Russia
Democratic Russia
Democratization
Despotism
Dictatorship
Eduard Bernstein
Employment
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Externality
February Revolution
Hunger strike
Ideology
Institution
Insurgency
Karl Marx
Layoff
Legislature
Leninism
Liberalization
Mass mobilization
Mikhail Gorbachev
Multi-party system
National security
Nina Andreyeva
No Campaign (UK)
Nomenklatura
Party system
Peaceful coexistence
Perestroika
Persecution
Police action
Police state
Political campaign
Political organization
Political party
Politician
Politics
Power vacuum
Privatization
Proletarian internationalism
Radicalism (historical)
Regime change
Samizdat
Social democracy
Social movement
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
State (polity)
State actor
State socialism
Totalitarianism
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Underground press
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691029146
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the autonomous political organizations that responded to liberalization. Extensive study of these political groups, in Moscow and several provincial cities, has led M. Steven Fish to conclude that they were shaped to a far greater degree by the nature of the Soviet state than by socioeconomic modernization, political culture, native psychology, or Russian historical tradition. Fish's statist theory of societal change in Russia yields a powerful explanation of why Russia's new political society differs radically not only from the "totalized," sub-jugated country of the pre-1985 period but also from the "civil societies" found in the West and in many developing countries. In addition, the author shows how the legacy of the Soviet experience continues to influence the development--arguably the underdevelopment--of representative political institutions in post-Soviet Russia, making the establishment of stable democracy unlikely in the near term.
This book proposes a novel and theoretically sophisticated way to study Russian politics. It offers a rigorous approach to understanding social movements, political party formation, regime change, and democratization in general. While focusing primarily on a single country, it is vigorously comparative at the same time.
M. Steven Fish is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
