Contributor
Taranovski, Theodore.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Descriptionxiii, 436 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Papers from a conference entitled "Reform in Russian and Soviet History--Its Meaning and Function," held May 5-May 7, 1990, organized by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Note:Includes index.
Note:The problem of reform in Russian and Soviet history / heodore Taranovski -- Part I. TRADITIONS OF REFORM IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA: "Revolution from above" in Russia: reflections on Natan Eidel'man's last book and related matters / Terence Emmons -- Russia falls back, Russia catches up: three generations of Russian reformers / Larisa G. Zakharova -- Reforms and political culture in prerevolutionary Russia: commentary / Daniel Field -- Part II. AUTOCRACY AND THE CHALLENGE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM: The social problem in Russia, 1906-1914: Stolypin's agrarian reform / Avenir P. Korelin -- Agricultural reform and political change: the case of Stolypin / David A.J. Macey -- United government and the crisis of autocracy, 1905-1914 / David M. McDonald -- Russia's parliament of public opinion: association, assembly, and the autocracy, 1906-1914 / Joseph Bradley -- The reforming tradition in Russian and Soviet history: commentary / Alfred J. Rieber -- Part III. THE UNCERTAIN INTERLUDE: The evolution of Bolshevik cultural policies during the first years of Soviet power / Peter Kenez -- Local power in the 1920s: police and administrative reform / Neil B. Weissman -- The antibureaucratic campaigns of the 1920s / Daniel T. Orlovsky -- The inconsistency of NEP: commentary / Ben Eklof -- Part IV: THE CHALLENGE OF PLURALISM FROM KHRUSHCHEV TO GORBACHEV: Khrushchev and the crisis of the regime of the Marxian prince / Carl A. Linden -- Khrushchev's reforms in the light of perestroika / Vitalii S. Lel'chuk -- Perestroika: a revival of Khrushchevian reform or a new idea of socialist society? / Giulietto Chiesa -- Khrushchev and Gorbachev: similarity and difference: commentary / Robert V. Daniels -- The reformer's dilemma: damned if it's reform, damned if it's revolution: commentary / William Taubman -- Part V. THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE: Perestroika and the role of representative institutions in contemporary Soviet politics / Sergei B. Stankevich -- Glasnost in Russia and the USSR: the 1860s and the 1980s / Iurii M. Baturin -- Reform and revolution: commentary / Blair A. Ruble -- The fifth Russian revolution: commentary / Robert C. Tucker -- The return to normalcy: commentary / Theodore Taranovski.
