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Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: The Post Stalin Era

Product Description: 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 and the creative thinkers who play a major part in the movement toward modernization...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780691631837, titled "Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: The Post-stalin Era" | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $127.50 | About this edition: 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 and the creative thinkers who play a major part in the movement toward modernization.

9780691094595 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 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 and the creative thinkers who play a major part in the movement toward modernization.

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9780691602301, titled "Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: The Post-stalin Era" | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $51.00

Restricting Freedoms: Limitations on the Individual in Contemporary America

Product Description: 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 States from almost anywhere in the world has not waned for more than a century...read more

By Eric Beasley

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9781412849722 | Transaction Pub, February 20, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom.

Feudal America: Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society

Product Description: Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods argue that the answer to these questions cannot be found among the conventional models used to describe the nation...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780271037813 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, April 30, 2011, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes?

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9780271037820 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 28, 2011, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Do Americans live in a liberal capitalist society, where evenhanded competition rules the day, or a society in which big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes?

The Soviet Union: Internal and External Perspecitves on Soviet Society

By Eero Carroll (editor), Eric Shiraev (editor) and Vladimir Shlapentokh (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780230607774 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2008, cover price $110.00

Contemporary Russia As a Feudal Society: A New Perspective on the Post-soviet Era

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780230600966 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $115.00

Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society

Product Description: The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia. In addition to a review of the feudal model as an ideal type, the authors explain the analytical benefits of drawing comparisons between countries and across historical contexts...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780230609693 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the model to post-Soviet Russia.

Pamiati Arona Katsenelinboigena

By Vladimir Shlapentokh (editor)

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9781557791627 | Hermitage, June 30, 2008, cover price $12.00

Fear in Contemporary Society: Its Negative And Positive Effects

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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Hardcover:

9781403973894 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 17, 2006, cover price $110.00

America: Sovereign Defender Or Cowboy Nation?

Product Description: Following the 9/11 attacks on America, the initial 'flood of sympathy' for America's tragedy soon dried up and was followed by a wide range of opinions. The assessments of the events and the actions undertaken by Washington have become increasingly polarized...read more

By Eric Shiraev, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods

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9780754644286 | Ashgate Pub Co, June 30, 2005, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Following the 9/11 attacks on America, the initial 'flood of sympathy' for America's tragedy soon dried up and was followed by a wide range of opinions.

An Autobiographical Narration Of The Role Of Fear And Friendship In The Soviet Union

Product Description: An autobiography of a well-known American sociologist who first rose to prominence in the Soviet Union. Author examines the life of an individual who realized in his early youth the totalitarian character of the Soviet society but who did not dare fight the system...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780773462946 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: An autobiography of a well-known American sociologist who first rose to prominence in the Soviet Union.

Fears in Post Communist Society: A Comparative Perspective

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By Eric Shiraev (editor) and Vladimir Shlapentokh (editor)

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9780312293543 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 3, 2002), cover price $95.00

A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

Product Description: 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 overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9781563244711 | M E Sharpe Inc, October 1, 2001, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9781563244728 | M E Sharpe Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $47.95

The New Elite in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Product Description: With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a radical metamorphosis took place in Eastern Europe as major power structures were replaced by new systems of power and authority. With new power systems came new types of dominant elites. The New Elite in Post-Communist Eastern Europe identifies those elites who have gained control of the political, economic, cultural, and scientific institutions of the new state systems and examines the nature of power in the post-Communist world and the relationships between the old and new elite...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Boris Zusmanovich Doktorov (editor), Vladimir Shlapentokh (editor) and Christopher K. Vanderpool (editor)

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9780890968956 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a radical metamorphosis took place in Eastern Europe as major power structures were replaced by new systems of power and authority.

From Submission to Rebellion: The Provinces Versus the Center in Russia

Product Description: Written in the spirit of comparative and historical analysis, this book addresses the relationship between the center and its provincesÂan important issue in any societyÂusing Russia as a case study. The authors investigate the historical stages of Russiaâs past with a special focus on the postcommunist era, a time when the movement toward regional autonomy (regionalization) is extremely important as a molder of political and economic life...read more

By Roman Levita and Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780813321561 | Westview Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Written in the spirit of comparative and historical analysis, this book addresses the relationship between the center and its provincesâan important issue in any societyâusing Russia as a case study.

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9780813321578 | Westview Pr, October 5, 1998, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Written in the spirit of comparative and historical analysis, this book addresses the relationship between the center and its provincesÂan important issue in any societyÂusing Russia as a case study.

The New Russian Diaspora: Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics

By Emil Payin (editor), Munir Sendich and Vladimir Shlapentokh (editor)

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9781563243356 | M E Sharpe Inc, July 1, 1994, cover price $158.00

Soviet Cinematography 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality

Product Description: 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 between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Dmitry Shlapentokh and Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780202304618 | Aldine De Gruyter, September 1, 1993, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: 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 between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost.

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9780202304625 | Aldine De Gruyter, November 1, 1993, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: 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 between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost.

The Last Years of the Soviet Empire: Snapshots from 1985-1991

Product Description: Between 1985 and 1991, the Soviet Union was shaken to its core by a series of remarkable social and political developments. Throughout the period, the eminent Sovietologist Vladimir Shlapentokh monitored the revolution and recorded his impressions in a series of essays which were published in major North American newspapers and periodicals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Neil F. O'Donnell and Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780275944407 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1993, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Between 1985 and 1991, the Soviet Union was shaken to its core by a series of remarkable social and political developments.

State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression

Product Description: The systematic use of terror by governments against their own citizens is treated in this volume as a phenomenon manifesting itself in both right and left wing regimes and in widely varying social contexts. This book aims for a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary understanding of repression that will lead to a more productive international human rights diagolue...read more

By P. Timothy Bushnell, Vladimir Shlapentokh and Christopher K. Vanderpool (editor)

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9780813383071 | Westview Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: The systematic use of terror by governments against their own citizens is treated in this volume as a phenomenon manifesting itself in both right and left wing regimes and in widely varying social contexts.

Otkryvaia Ameriku

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9781557790132 | Hermitage, February 1, 1990, cover price $9.00

Public and Private Life of the Soviet People: Changing Values in Post-Stalin Russia

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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Hardcover:

9780195042665 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $60.00

Soviet Ideologies in the Period of Glasnost: Responses to Brezhnev's Stagnation

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By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780275926717 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1988, cover price $118.00

Soviet Public Opinion and Ideology: Mythology and Pragmatism in Interaction

Product Description: This is the first book to view Soviet ideology and public opinion from the perspective of Soviet mythology. The author puts forth the idea that mythology in Soviet life is one of the most important variables determining the path of Soviet history and examines how Soviet society adjusts to the important role of mythology in its life...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780275925611 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1986, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to view Soviet ideology and public opinion from the perspective of Soviet mythology.

Love, Marriage, and Friendship in the Soviet Union: Ideals and Practice

Product Description: Based on Soviet sociological studies, Soviet fiction and film, and mass media reports, this volume explores the ways in which Soviet attitudes about love, sex, marriage, friendship, and children have been influenced by the evolution of Soviet ideology, politics, and economy since the Bolshevik revolution...read more

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

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9780275912666 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1984, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Based on Soviet sociological studies, Soviet fiction and film, and mass media reports, this volume explores the ways in which Soviet attitudes about love, sex, marriage, friendship, and children have been influenced by the evolution of Soviet ideology, politics, and economy since the Bolshevik revolution.

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