04176oam 2200673Ia 450 991078273210332120231019215015.01-282-85500-X97866128550090-7735-6712-710.1515/9780773567122(CKB)1000000000713410(SSID)ssj0000280819(PQKBManifestationID)11207291(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280819(PQKBWorkID)10310069(PQKB)11562223(CaPaEBR)400548(CaBNvSL)jme00326531(Au-PeEL)EBL3331087(CaPaEBR)ebr10141758(CaONFJC)MIL285500(OCoLC)929121257(DE-B1597)655504(DE-B1597)9780773567122(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/9d9hm7(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400548(MiAaPQ)EBC3331087(MiAaPQ)EBC3245514(EXLCZ)99100000000071341019971208h19981998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInstitutions of isolation border controls in the Soviet Union and its successor states, 1917-1993 /Andrea ChandlerMontreal ;Buffalo :McGill-Queen's University Press,1998.©19981 online resource (xv, 205 pages)Based on author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University.0-7735-1717-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-200) and index.Front Matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --The Paradox of Socialist Isolation: Ideology and Territory in the Construction of Soviet Border Controls --States, Regimes and Border Controls: The Link between Communism and Isolation --Borderland Sovereignty Struggles and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1917-1922 --The Politics of Autarky: Soviet Customs Institutions and the Post-revolutionary Economy in the 1920s --Border Control and Centre-Periphery Relations in the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 --State-Sponsored Isolation and Institutional Politics --The Reconstruction and Maintenance of Border Controls, 1941-1985 --Perestroika and the Iron Curtain: The Dilemmas of Changing Institutions, 1986-1991 --Ending Isolation: Border Control in the Soviet Successor States --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexChandler provides a comprehensive examination of border controls from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and shows the continued importance of border controls for the newly independent Soviet successor states. She reveals the changing nature of Soviet border control policy, from the extreme Stalinist isolation of the 1930s to liberalization - and eventual instability - during perestroika in the late 1980s. Chandler argues that Communist ideology was not the only reason for the self-imposed isolation of the state and explores a complex, ever-changing set of political, inter-bureaucratic, and economic factors that combined to influence the Soviet Union's closed-border policies. She draws on social science theories of comparative institutional change and state formation to illuminate policies within the Soviet state, which has often been regarded as a unique case. By exploring why a political system that originally prided itself on its internationalism devoted such intense efforts to seal its society from the outside world, Institutions of Isolation provides a revealing case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet state.Soviet UnionHistorySoviet UnionBoundariesFormer Soviet republicsBoundariesSoviet UnionForeign relationsSoviet UnionPolitics and government327.47Chandler Andrea M.1963-1468918MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782732103321Institutions of isolation3680289UNINA