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Russia : the challenges of transformation / edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz and Dmitri Trenin ; foreword by Craig Calhoun ; afterword by Vladimir I. Yakunin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Possible futures series ; v. 4.Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2011]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 491 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814785010
  • 0814785018
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russia.DDC classification:
  • 330.947 22
LOC classification:
  • HC336.27 .R87 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Missing in translation: re-conceptualizing Russia's developmental state / Piotr Dutkiewicz -- The long road to normalcy: where Russia now stands / Vladimir Popov -- The sovereign bureaucracy in Russia's modernizations / Georgi Derluguian -- The changing dynamics of Russian politics / Richard Sakwa -- Leadership and the politics of modernization / Timothy J. Colton -- The sociology of post-reform Russia / Mikhail K. Gorshkov -- Elites: the choice for modernization / Leonid Grigoriev -- Education for an innovative Russia / Nur Kirabaev -- Health and healthcare in Russia today and tomorrow / Oleg Atkov and Guzel Ulumbekova -- The imaginary curtain / Roderic Lyne -- What kind of a Europe for what kind of Russia / Alexander Rahr -- The Obama administration's "reset button" for Russia / Andrew C. Kuchins -- Russia: the eastern dimension / Bobo Lo -- Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia: relations transformed / Rustem Zhangozha -- Of power and greatness / Dmitri Trenin -- Russia and the West: toward understanding / Vladimir I. Yakunin.
Summary: In Russia a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation of Russia. This timely and important book of original essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both in its domestic policies and in its international relations. It also explores how global order - or disorder - may develop over the coming decades.
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"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed March 1, 2016).

In Russia a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation of Russia. This timely and important book of original essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both in its domestic policies and in its international relations. It also explores how global order - or disorder - may develop over the coming decades.

Missing in translation: re-conceptualizing Russia's developmental state / Piotr Dutkiewicz -- The long road to normalcy: where Russia now stands / Vladimir Popov -- The sovereign bureaucracy in Russia's modernizations / Georgi Derluguian -- The changing dynamics of Russian politics / Richard Sakwa -- Leadership and the politics of modernization / Timothy J. Colton -- The sociology of post-reform Russia / Mikhail K. Gorshkov -- Elites: the choice for modernization / Leonid Grigoriev -- Education for an innovative Russia / Nur Kirabaev -- Health and healthcare in Russia today and tomorrow / Oleg Atkov and Guzel Ulumbekova -- The imaginary curtain / Roderic Lyne -- What kind of a Europe for what kind of Russia / Alexander Rahr -- The Obama administration's "reset button" for Russia / Andrew C. Kuchins -- Russia: the eastern dimension / Bobo Lo -- Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia: relations transformed / Rustem Zhangozha -- Of power and greatness / Dmitri Trenin -- Russia and the West: toward understanding / Vladimir I. Yakunin.

English.

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