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

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, w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McClellan, Dorothy S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson : McFarland & Co., Ã2014.
Temas:
1970-1991
Americans > Soviet Union > Biography.
Social change > Soviet Union > History.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Americans.
Social change.
Social conditions
Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991 > Biography.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1970-1991.
URSS > Histoire > 1985-1991.
URSS > Histoire > 1985-1991 > Biographies.
URSS > Conditions sociales > 1970-1991.
Soviet Union.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-Mumme
  • 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
  • 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.

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