Vladislav Krasnov, W. George Krasnow

Broschiertes Buch

Russia Beyond Communism

A Chronicle Of National Rebirth

Beschreibung

This book is about the demise of Communism in the USSR and a new Russia emerging to succeed the ailing Communist regime. It discusses a Russian national (or multinational) alternative to the virtually defunct ideology of Marxism-Leninism and an unstoppable withering away of the Communist state.

Autor

Vladislav Georgievich Krasnov received his Diploma in History and Anthropology from Moscow University. While working as an editor of Radio Moscow's Foreign Broadcast, he defected to Sweden, where he was granted political asylum. In 1976 he became a U.S. citizen. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, he is director of the Russian Studies program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. He has taught at the University of Texas, Austin; Southern Methodist University; and the University of Lund (Sweden). He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and did research at Hokkaido University (Japan). He is the author of Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky (University of Georgia Press) and Soviet Defectors: The KGB Wanted List (Hoover Institution Press). His articles have appeared in The Russian Review, The Slavic Review, Russian Language Journal, Modern Age, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Kontinent (Paris), Grani (Frankfurt am Main), and Chishiki (Tokyo). He is a former director of the Center for Contemporary Russian Studies at MIIS.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780367301934
• ISBN-10: 0367301938
• Artikelnr.: 62387833