Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of EurasiaVladimir Tismaneanu M.E. Sharpe, 1995 - 384 pages First Published in 1998. This ambitious ten-volume series develops a com prehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. |
Contents
Understanding PostSovietism Between Residual Leninism and Uncertain Pluralism | 1 |
Russia | 23 |
Map | 24 |
Revolutionary Ideas State Interests and Russian Foreign Policy | 25 |
The Resilience of Mass Support for Democratic Institutions and Processes in the Nascent Russian and Ukrainian Democracies | 51 |
Changes in Contemporary Russian Political Culture | 110 |
Russian Political Parties and Foreign Policy | 133 |
The Western Newly Independent States | 151 |
Political Culture and Foreign Policy Elections in Ukraine 1994 | 204 |
Political Culture in Estonia The Impact of Two Traditions on Political Development | 223 |
The Southern Newly Independent States | 265 |
Map | 266 |
State Building and Civil Society in Central Asia | 267 |
The Legacy of the Soviet Political System and the Prospects for Developing Civil Society in Central Asia | 288 |
Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Kyrgyzstan | 314 |
PostSoviet Crisis and Disorder in Transcaucasia The Search for Regional Security and Stability | 333 |
Map | 152 |
Ukraine The Temptation of the Nationalizing State | 153 |
Russocentrism Regionalism and the Political Culture of Ukraine | 185 |
Project Participants | 360 |
Index | 360 |
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Page ix - We would like to thank the contributors to this volume for their help in making the first phase of the Russian Littoral Project a success and for revising their papers in a timely fashion. We...