1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462199903321

Autore

Medvedev Roy Aleksandrovich <1925->

Titolo

Post-Soviet Russia : A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShriverGeorge

Disciplina

338.947/009/049

338.947009049

Soggetti

Capitalism -- Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467158803321

Autore

Johnson Marilynn S.

Titolo

The new Bostonians : how immigrants have transformed the metro area since the 1960s /  |c  / / Marilynn S. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61376-355-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009744/61

Soggetti

Immigrants - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Boston (Mass.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Boston (Mass.) Social conditions

Boston (Mass.) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.