Destination in doubt : Russia since 1989 / Stephen Lovell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovell, Stephen, 1972- author.

Series:

Global history of the present.

Global history of the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Russia (Federation).

Social change.

Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

ebook edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The enormously complex changes triggered by the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe were nowhere more ambiguous than in the heartland of the Soviet bloc, Russia itself. Here the population was divided on all the most fundamental questions of post-communist transition: economic reforms, the Communist Party, the borders of the state, even the definition of the Russian 'nation' itself. Russians also faced plummeting living standards and chronic uncertainty. In a matter of months, Russia was apparently demoted from 'evil empire' to despondent poor relation of the prosperous West. Yet the country also seemed alarmingly open to all manner of political outcomes. Russia deserves our attention now as much as ever, because it raises so many of the big questions about how societies operate in the modern world.

Contents:

What was Soviet socialism?

The state : death and rebirth?

Democratization?

Birth of a nation?

A free market?

Surviving post-socialism

Russia's war on terror.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-178) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786611259136

9781350219533

1350219533

9781848136434

1848136439

9781281259134

1281259136

9781780345130

1780345135

9781848131279

1848131275

OCLC:

476155854