Breslauer george w editor (5 risultati)

PB. Condizione: fine, wraps (softcover). 135pp ISBN 0962262919.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. A nice copy! Includes articles on private farming and the failure of democracy in post-Soviet Russia. Ships from NC. (E-7.).

Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. No DJ issued. [2], 441-528 pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. References. Ink marks to text noted. Published in association with Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. This professional journal features the work of prominent western scholars on the republics of the former Soviet Union providing exclusive analyses of the state of the economy and society. It was formerly known as Soviet Economy. In one article a team of US and Russian geographers combines field observations with satellite imagery in an examination of how major trends in Russian agriculture are manifest in one of Russia's most productive agricultural regions: Stavropol' Kray. A nationwide pattern of agricultural consolidation during the 1990s (featuring rural depopulation and a reduction in cultivated area and herd sizes upon the termination of Soviet-era subsidization levels) has had decidedly different outcomes in different parts of the vast Russian countryside. This paper ? using Stavropol' as a surrogate for regions which by physical attributes, location, and human capital are best positioned to support agricultural activity ? identifies developments that signal a new growth trajectory for agriculture in Russia: evolving specialization of former socialized farms in response to market conditions (involving the shrinkage of animal husbandry and the release of surplus labor); increased levels of absentee ownership of farmland in the more favorable locations; decoupling of the economic fate of large farms from local municipal budgets; and the expansion of non-Russian ethnic communities in the countryside, with attendant land use changes. The article on territorial genealogies uses statistical analysis of aggregate electoral returns in order to establish continuities in the territorial patterns of support between four major political parties of contemporary Russia, on the one hand, and those parties that contested national legislative (Duma) elections from 1993 through 2007, on the other hand. It is hypothesized that such continuities, dubbed ?territorial genealogies,? are largely rooted in the migration of region-based gubernatorial political machines from one national party to another, which constitutes a major flow of organizational continuity in the development of political parties. Statistical analysis confirms that the main hubs of machine politics in Russia's regions, originating from the intra-elite struggles of the 1990s, provide United Russia with the territorial core of its current support. Other political parties retain electoral salience in those regions where their electoral appeal is not mitigated by the presence of political machines, which underscores the importance of non-machine party organization for their electoral destinies. The article on the Cossacks argues that despite attempts to portray Krasnodar Kray in southern Russia as a homeland for Cossacks, to date the Cossack identity there remains underdeveloped. Why has a Cossack identity in Krasnodar not become more popular? This article uses the case of the Kuban Cossacks as a test of constructionist theories of identity. The article takes as background the attempts of the Russian authorities to display the Cossacks as the indigenous people of the region for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2014. Despite this and other efforts, only a minuscule proportion of the inhabitants of Krasnodar Kray identify with the Cossack label, which makes this case problematic for constructivism. The article reviews constructionist theories of ethnic and national identity and analyses the advantages and obstacles to the successful construction of a Cossack identity in the Krasnodar region. It finishes by drawing implications for constructionist theorizing from the case of the Kuban Cossack Host. The final article is on Imperial nostalgia. After stagnating throughout most of the 1990s and 2000s, Russia's efforts to reintegrate the post-Soviet space are finally gathering momentum. According to President Vladimi.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 334 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 334 pages. 9.13x6.57x1.11 inches. In Stock.