The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century

How the Past Informs the Present
Herausgeber: Chotiner, Barbara Ann; Cook, Linda J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781793636096
• ISBN-10: 1793636095
• Artikelnr.: 64054972

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: To Bialer's Successors: How the Soviet Past Informs the
Post-Soviet Present by Jack Snyder
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seweryn Bialer: Scholar, Teacher, 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
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
by Peter H. Solomon 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