04286nam 2200805 a 450 991045553230332120200520144314.01-4008-0232-697866127521171-4008-2154-11-282-75211-11-4008-1160-010.1515/9781400821549(CKB)111056486503540(EBL)581591(OCoLC)700688570(SSID)ssj0000136551(PQKBManifestationID)11147084(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136551(PQKBWorkID)10082230(PQKB)10648266(SSID)ssj0000431926(PQKBManifestationID)12190118(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431926(PQKBWorkID)10493314(PQKB)10711079(MiAaPQ)EBC581591(OCoLC)133162730(MdBmJHUP)muse36000(DE-B1597)446094(OCoLC)979749074(DE-B1597)9781400821549(Au-PeEL)EBL581591(CaPaEBR)ebr10035815(CaONFJC)MIL275211(EXLCZ)9911105648650354019940601d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDemocracy from scratch[electronic resource] opposition and regime in the new Russian Revolution /M. Steven FishCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc19951 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-02914-8 0-691-03703-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-287) and index.I. Western Scholarship and the New Russian Revolution --II. The Transformation of Politics: A Historical Overview --III. Investigating the Phenomenon: A Framework for Analysis --IV. Building Independent Political Society --V. The Struggle in the Provinces: A Tale of Four Cities --VI. Democracy from Scratch --EpilogueThis book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by investigating the autonomous political organizations that responded to liberalization. Extensive study of these political groups, in Moscow and several provincial cities, has led M. Steven Fish to conclude that they were shaped to a far greater degree by the nature of the Soviet state than by socioeconomic modernization, political culture, native psychology, or Russian historical tradition. Fish's statist theory of societal change in Russia yields a powerful explanation of why Russia's new political society differs radically not only from the "totalized," sub-jugated country of the pre-1985 period but also from the "civil societies" found in the West and in many developing countries. In addition, the author shows how the legacy of the Soviet experience continues to influence the development--arguably the underdevelopment--of representative political institutions in post-Soviet Russia, making the establishment of stable democracy unlikely in the near term. This book proposes a novel and theoretically sophisticated way to study Russian politics. It offers a rigorous approach to understanding social movements, political party formation, regime change, and democratization in general. While focusing primarily on a single country, it is vigorously comparative at the same time.Political partiesSoviet UnionDemocracyRussia (Federation)Political partiesRussia (Federation)Soviet UnionPolitics and government1985-1991Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991-Electronic books.Political partiesDemocracyPolitical parties320.947/09/049Fish M. Steven(Michael Steven),1962-970156MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455532303321Democracy from scratch2330856UNINA