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UNINA9910462199903321 |
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Medvedev Roy Aleksandrovich <1925-> |
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Post-Soviet Russia : A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2000 |
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1 online resource (409 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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338.947/009/049 |
338.947009049 |
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Capitalism -- Russia (Federation) |
Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991- |
Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991- |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction; PART 1 Myths and Realities of Capitalism in Russia; 1 A Capitalist Perestroika: First Steps, 1992-1993; 2 Obstacles to Capitalist Development in Russia; 3 Privatization, Government Crisis, and Elections (1993); 4 The End of Market Romanticism; 5 Russia's New Class; PART 2 The Elections of 1995-96 and Their Aftermath; 6 Duma Elections, December 1995; 7 Gennady Zyuganov as Politician and Ideologist; 8 The Inevitability of Change; PART 3 1998: A Year of Upheaval; 9 "War on the Rails"; 10 Financial Collapse and Another Change of Government |
POSTSCRIPT: Yeltsin's Last Year11 Why the Dismissal of Primakov?; 12 The Dismissal of Stepashin; 13 Who Is Putin?; 14 The Second Chechnya War; 15 The December 1999 Elections; 16 A Change Without a Coup or Revolution; Index |
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Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to |
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UNINA9910467158803321 |
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Johnson Marilynn S. |
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The new Bostonians : how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s / |c / / Marilynn S. Johnson |
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Immigrants - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century |
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Boston (Mass.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century |
Boston (Mass.) Social conditions |
Boston (Mass.) Ethnic relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Boston's "old" immigrants -- Roots and routes -- The metropolitan diaspora -- Immigrants and work in the new economy -- Nativism, violence, and the rise of multiculturalism -- Immigrant religion and Boston's quiet revival -- The new ethnic politics in Boston -- Epilogue: immigrants and the new majority. |
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