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“stephen crowley”

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  • Putin's Labor Dilemma

    Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation

    by Stephen Crowley ...
    In Putin's Labor Dilemma**, Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia.** Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing so threatens to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Hot Coal, Cold Steel

    Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations

    by Stephen Crowley ...
    Well after the disintegration of the Communist Party and the Soviet state--and through several years of economic collapse--industrial workers in almost every sector of the former Soviet Union have remained quiescent and the same ineffective and unpopular trade unions still hold a virtual monopoly on worker's representation. Why? While many argue that labor is a central variable in the development ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research

    Edited by Michael O′Rourke, Stephen Crowley, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, J. D. Wulfhorst ...
    Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research, edited by Michael O′Rourke, Stephen Crowley, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, and J. D. Wulfhorst, is a volume of previously unpublished, state-of-the-art chapters on interdisciplinary communication and collaboration written by leading figures and promising junior scholars in the world of interdisciplinary research, education, and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Working through the Past

    Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, Stephen Crowley ...
    Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution?

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  • Systemic and Non-Systemic Opposition in the Russian Federation

    Civil Society Awakens?

    by Cameron Ross ...
    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    Over the period December 2011-July 2013 a tidal wave of mass protests swept through the Russian Capital and engulfed scores of cities and regions. Civil society, it appeared, had at last woken up. This fascinating book examines the rise and fall of the non-systemic opposition and the role of the systemic political opposition during this turbulent period. Leading experts in the field from Russia ... 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

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  • 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

  • The Central Government of Russia

    From Gorbachev to Putin

    by Iulia Shevchenko ...
    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    Placing the development of the Soviet and Russian central governments in theoretical context, this work breaks new ground in the study of contemporary Russian politics. Iulia Shevchenko's creative treatment of the principal-agent model offers fresh insight into the institutional origins of change in government organization in the communist and post-communist period, from President Gorbachev to ... Read more

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  • The Czech And Slovak Republics

    Nation Versus State

    by Carol Leff ...
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  • Priests of Prosperity

    How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World

    by Juliet Johnson ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Money
    Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She ... Read more

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  • Building an Authoritarian Polity

    Russia in Post-Soviet Times

    by Graeme Gill ...
    Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD