Witnessing the Soviet twilight : accounts of Americans in the U.S.S.R. on the eve of its collapse / edited by Dorothy S. McClellan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McClellan, Dorothy S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Soviet Union--Biography.

Americans.

Social change--Soviet Union--History.

Social change.

Soviet Union--History--1985-1991.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991.

Soviet Union--History--1985-1991--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than 20 years have passed since the fall of the Soviet empire. This book provides an intimate look at how Americans resident in the Soviet Union in its final days described this unprecedented moment in history. North American scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, psychology, women's studies, criminal justice, labor relations, religion and education present their insights into the dramatic events that marked the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transition to the Commonwealth of Independent States. As glasnost and perestroika developed, many Russians grew critical of t

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction (Dorothy S. McClellan); State of the Soviet Union: View from the Ivory Tower (Dorothy S. McClellan and James E. McClellan, Jr.); Moral and Spiritual Changes (Howard L. Parsons); Coaching Soviet Baseball: Excerpts from a Sociologist's Journal (William J. Byrne, III); Perestroika and Ideology (John J. Neumaier); Russia Between the Union and the Commonwealth: New Carpetbaggers and Old Dreams (Carla Lipsig-Mummé); Worker Self-Management in Soviet Theory and Practice (Aaron Bindman); The Crisis of Soviet Legitimacy (Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger)

Moscow Memoir: On the Status of Women (Freda Casner)Perestroika and the Internationalization of Russian Higher Education: The Summer of 1990 (Donald A. Biggs with Robert J. Colesante); Perestroika in Philosophy: Report from Moscow State University (Dorothy S. McClellan and James E. McClellan, Jr.); Why, When and How We Lost Russia (James E. McClellan, Jr.); The Universality of Liberal Capitalism and the Possibility of Renewed Socialism: Reflections on the Soviet Coup of August 1991 (James Lawler); About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1496-2