Reexamining the Soviet Experience
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Alexander Dallin
Contributors: David Holloway (Editor); Norman Naimark (Editor); Alexander Dallin (Editor)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780813389547
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Historiography; Political science & theory; Politics / Current Events; General; Former Soviet Republics - History - Post Cold War (1991-); Politics - Current Events; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Eastern Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Soviet Union; Former Soviet republics; History
Description: These stimulating essays, written by some of the field's finest historian and political scientists, invite discussion and reflection on matters of theory and practice in view of the USSR's demise.

How did we study the Soviet Union before, and in what ways must we adjust our approaches and habits to take account of new opportunities and pitfalls? How do current developments in the USSR's successor states alter or deepen our understanding of the Soviet experience?

These questions are explored here and thorough examinations of specific problems that arose during the contributors' recent research and writing as well as the emergence and evolution of the field of Soviet studies and in the development of the Soviet social and political institutions themselves. Readers will be challenged to take stock of their own preconceptions about and approaches to studying this complex and rapidly changing region.