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  • Hendon-Moscow-Dorset, a memoir (and Birmingham)

    by Philip Hanson ...
    Philip Hanson is a jazz fan, a cricket fan and a Russia-watcher. He has also been a husband for many years and is the father of two sons who are, let's face it, middle-aged, though you'd never know it. So now he is getting on a bit. His employment record suggests restlessness: the Treasury, Foreign Office, UN, Radio Liberty, Harvard, Michigan and Kyoto, among others. In fact, he fitted in about ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy

    An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991

    by Philip Hanson ...
    Series series The Postwar World
    Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Advertising and socialism: The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland

    The nature and extent of consumer advertising in the Soviet Union, Poland

    by Philip Hanson ...
    This study looks at the tiny but growing volume of consumer advertising even in countries such as the Soviet Union, which had detailed central planning, and substantially more in the recently decentralised Hungarian economy and pre-invasion Czechoslovakia. And of course, outside the Soviet orbit there was the relatively market-oriented and Westernised Yugoslav economy. This suggested that there ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Comparative Economics of Research Development and Innovation in East and West

    by Professor Philip Hanson, P. Hanson, K. Pavitt ...
    A systematic comparison of the institutions and incentive systems governing the processes of technological invention, innovation and diffusion in advanced market and centrally planned economies. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Russian Economic Reform

    by James Leitzel ...
    Transitions from socialism to capitalism are complex, both in theory and practice. Russian Economic Reform enables the reader to come to a much better understanding of these momentous changes, by providing a clear and accessible account of the major features of transition. It argues that attempts to portray the reform process is a disaster are misconceived, because they fail to take account of ... Read more

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  • Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism

    by Mervyn Matthews ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them.This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia

    by Pekka Sutela ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition from central management to a market economy, from one-party rule to democracy, from multi-national ... Read more

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  • The Soviet Union under Gorbachev (Routledge Revivals)

    Prospects for Reform

    by David A. Dyker ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Gorbachev’s accession to General Secretary promised great changes to the Soviet Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1987, discusses the problems faced by Gorbachev when he entered office and how he planned to tackle them. Gorbachev was a figure of genuine debate in the mid-1980s, raising doubts from Western specialists regarding his radicalism and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Soviet Economy (Routledge Revivals)

    by Alec Nove ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1961, The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. In a balanced and perceptive analysis, Alexander Nove describes the organisation of economic life and of the planning system, analysing the practical and theoretical problems within the institutional structure of the Soviet system, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Funding Loyalty

    The Economics of the Communist Party

    by Eugenia Belova, Valery Lazarev ...
    Series series The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
    The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party’s role in the Soviet institutional design. Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist party's financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Russia

    Edited by Neil Robinson ...
    This timely book explores Russia’s political development since the collapse of the USSR and how inextricably it has been bound up with economic change. Tracing the evolution of Russia’s political economy, leading scholars consider how it may continue to develop going forward. They assess the historical legacies of the Soviet period, showing how—despite policies implemented after the USSR dissolved ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

  • From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union

    The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973

    by Ivan T. Berend ...
    The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 as his starting point, he charts the gradual unravelling of state socialism in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD