Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress or Cycle?

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Pub. Date: 1995-01-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This volume provides a historical introduction to the question of whether Russian state and society can be reformed successfully for Russia to become a full-fledged member of the European community of nations, or whether its attempts at modernization are destined to suffer cyclical failures. Examinations of past reform efforts going back to the early nineteenth century and moving forward through Gorbachev provide grounds for modest hope.

Table of Contents

1. The problem of reform in Russian and Soviet history Theodore Taranovski
Part I. Traditions of Reform in Late Imperial Russia: 2. 'Revolution from Above' in Russia: reflections on Natan Eidel'man's last book and related matters Terence Emmons
3. Russia falls back Russia catches up: three generations of Russian reformers Valentina G. Cherukha and Boris V. Anan'ich
4. From reforms 'from above' to revolution 'from below' Larisa G. Zakharova
5. Reforms and political culture in prerevolutionary Russia: Commentary Daniel Field
Part II. Autocracy and the Challenge of Constitutionalism: 6. The social problem in Russia 1906-1914: Stolypin's agrarian reform Avenir P. Korelin
7. Agricultural reform and political change: the case of Stolypin David A. J. Macey
8. United government and the crisis of autocracy 1905-1914 David M. McDonald
9. Russia's parliament of public opinion: association assembly and the autocracy 1906-1914 Joseph Bradley
10. The reforming tradition in Russian and Soviet history: Commentary Alfred J. Rieber
Part III. The Uncertain Interlude: 11. The evolution of Bolshevik cultural policies during the first years of Soviet power Peter Kenez
12. Local power in the 1920s: police and administrative reform Neil B. Weissman
13. The antibureaucratic campaigns of the 1920s Daniel T. Orlovsky
14. The inconsistency of NEP: Commentary Ben Eklof
15. Khrushchev and the crisis of the regime of the Marxian prince Carl A. Linden
16. Khrushchev's reforms in the light of perestroika Vitalii S. Lel'chuk
17. Perestroika: a revival of Khruschevian reform or a new idea of socialist state Giulietto Chiesa
18. Khruschev and Gorbachev - similarity and difference: commentary Robert V. Daniels
19. The reformer's dilemma - damned if it's reform, damned if it's revolution: Commentary William Taubman
Part V. The Past, the Present and the Future: 20. Perestroika and the role of representative institutions in contemporary Soviet politics Sergei B. Stankevich
21. Glasnost in Russia and the USSR: the 1860s and the 1980s Iurii M. Baturin
22. Reform and revolution: Commentary Blair Ruble
23. The fifth Russian revolution: Commentary Robert C. Tucker
24. The return to normalcy: commentary Theodore Taranovski.

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