The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years--developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial historical events and social forces that explain Glasnost and political and economic life in the Soviet Union today.
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"A broad historical analysis of Lewin's kind makes the Gorbachev phenomenon far less an extraordinary event, by replacing it within the continuum of historical trends of which he is the expression and which are being achieved through him." -- Pierre Bourdieu, Times Literary Supplement
"Mr. Lewin's book is a grand essay of wide historical and sociological sweep. . . . Perhaps the study's most valuable contribution is the emphasis on the social changes Russia has undergone since 1917, symbolized by the shift of population from village to city and all the characteristic byproducts of urbanization, including the rise of the educated professionals with middle-class values and attitudes." -- Alexander Dallin, New York Times Book Review
"This slim volume, based on a lifetime's scholarly research into social change since the revolution, is compulsory . . . reading for anyone who would or should understand the Gorbachev phenomenon." -- Edward Acton, London Observer
"Mr. Lewin's book is a grand essay of wide historical and sociological sweep. . . . Perhaps the study's most valuable contribution is the emphasis on the social changes Russia has undergone since 1917, symbolized by the shift of population from village to city and all the characteristic byproducts of urbanization, including the rise of the educated professionals with middle-class values and attitudes." -- Alexander Dallin, New York Times Book Review
"This slim volume, based on a lifetime's scholarly research into social change since the revolution, is compulsory . . . reading for anyone who would or should understand the Gorbachev phenomenon." -- Edward Acton, London Observer
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Moshe Lewin is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books on Soviet history.
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Indispensable to our understanding of either the longer stretch of Russian/Soviet history or its most recent leg is an appreciation of the crucial role of agriculture and the peasantry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Indispensable to our understanding of either the longer stretch of Russian/Soviet history or its most recent leg is an appreciation of the crucial role of agriculture and the peasantry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, World War, Academy of Sciences, The Neiv Course, Front Village, United States, Peter the Great New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia by Moshe Lewin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin on page 44
- Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History) by Professor Fernand Braudel in Back Matter
- The Waking Giant by Martin Walker in Back Matter
- Modern Soviet Society by Basile Kerblay in Back Matter
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- Politics, Diplomacy, and the Media: Gorbachev's Legacy in the West by Anthony R. DeLuca on 8 pages
- From Leningrad To St. Petersburg by Robert W. Orttung on 4 pages
- Gandhi, Mao, Mandela, and Gorbachev: Studies in Personality, Power, and Politics by Anthony R. DeLuca on 4 pages
- How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development by Allen C. Lynch on 4 pages
- Russia and the Idea of the West by Robert English in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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