After the Collapse of Communism

Comparative Lessons of Transition
Herausgeber: Mcfaul, Michael; Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a response to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521153553
• ISBN-10: 0521153557
• Artikelnr.: 32086922

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Introduction: the evolving social science of post Communism
Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; 1. The triumph of Nation-States:
lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and
Czechoslovakia Philip Roeder; 2. The fourth wave of democracy and
dictatorship: noncooperative transitions in the post-Communist world
Michael McFaul; 3. Circumstances versus policy choices: why has the
economic performance of the Soviet successive states been so poor? Vladimir
Popov; 4. Whither the Central State? The regional sources of Russia's
stalled reforms Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; 5. Parties, citizens, and the
prospects for democratic consolidation in Russia Timothy Colton; 6.
Comparative democratization: lessons from Russia and the post-Communist
World Valerie Bunce; 7. Russians as joiners: realist and liberal
conceptions of post-Communist Europe James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul;
Index.