The International Politics of Eurasia: Vol 7: Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

ISBN-13: 9781563243646 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 398 str.

Vladimir Tismaneanu; W. Vladimir Tismaneanu

Opis

What are the near- and long-term prospects for the establishment of democratic polities in the Soviet successor states? In seeking to answer this question the best indicator would be the healthy development of civil societies of the region, with a growing capacity to assume social responsibility and exact government accountability. The chapters in this volume examine the evolving political cultures of the post-Soviet states.

Spis treści

1. Understanding Post-Sovietism: Between Residual Leninism and Uncertain Pluralism 1. Russia 2. Revolutionary Ideas, State Interests, and Russian Foreign Policy 3. The Resilience of Mass Support for Democratic Institutions and Processes in the Nascent Russian and Ukrainian Democracies 4. Changes in Contemporary Russian Political Culture 5. Russian Political Parties and Foreign Policy IL The Western Newly Independent States 6. Ukraine: The Temptation of the Nationalizing State 7. Russocentrism, Regionalism, and the Political Culture of Ukraine 8. Political Culture and Foreign Policy: Elections in Ukraine 1994, 9. Political Culture in Estonia: The Impact of Two Traditions on Political Development III. The Southern Newly Independent States 10. State Building and Civil Society in Central Asia 11. The Legacy of the Soviet Political System and the Prospects for Developing Civil Society in Central Asia 12. Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Kyrgyzstan 13. Post-Soviet Crisis and Disorder in Transcaucasia: The Search for Regional Security and Stability.

O autorze

Dawisha, Karen; Parrott, Bruce