Autor: Vladimir Shlapentokh

In this unprecedented work on the status and role of intellectuals in Soviet political life, a former Soviet sociologist maps out the delicate, often paradoxical, ties between the political regime an …

Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United Stat …

This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapent …

This book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces-an important issue in any society-using Russia as a case study. It analyses the historical stages of Russia’s past, with spec …

This book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces-an important issue in any society-using Russia as a case study. It analyses the historical stages of Russia’s past, with spec …

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the antecedent structural factors conducive to sta …

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression", addresses the antecedent structural factors conducive to sta …

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Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin’s death through the Soviet collapse and Russia’s first post-communist decade. Without over …

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin’s death through the Soviet collapse and Russia’s first post-communist decade. Without over …

In the wake of the USSR’s collapse, more than 25 million Russians found themselves living outside Russian territory, their status ambiguous. Equally uncertain is the role they will play as a factor i …

In the wake of the USSR’s collapse, more than 25 million Russians found themselves living outside Russian territory, their status ambiguous. Equally uncertain is the role they will play as a factor i …

A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe.Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend o …

With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union betwe …

With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union betwe …