LEADER 04284nam 2200805 a 450 001 996248120503316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0232-6 010 $a9786612752117 010 $a1-4008-2154-1 010 $a1-282-75211-1 010 $a1-4008-1160-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821549 035 $a(CKB)111056486503540 035 $a(EBL)581591 035 $a(OCoLC)700688570 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136551 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147084 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136551 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10082230 035 $a(PQKB)10648266 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431926 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12190118 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431926 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493314 035 $a(PQKB)10711079 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581591 035 $a(OCoLC)133162730 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36000 035 $a(DE-B1597)446094 035 $a(OCoLC)979749074 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821549 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581591 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035815 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275211 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503540 100 $a19940601d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemocracy from scratch$b[electronic resource] $eopposition and regime in the new Russian Revolution /$fM. Steven Fish 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-02914-8 311 $a0-691-03703-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-287) and index. 327 $tI. Western Scholarship and the New Russian Revolution --$tII. The Transformation of Politics: A Historical Overview --$tIII. Investigating the Phenomenon: A Framework for Analysis --$tIV. Building Independent Political Society --$tV. The Struggle in the Provinces: A Tale of Four Cities --$tVI. Democracy from Scratch --$tEpilogue 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPolitical parties$zSoviet Union 606 $aDemocracy$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aPolitical parties$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1985-1991 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical parties 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a320.947/09/049 700 $aFish$b M. Steven$g(Michael Steven),$f1962-$0970156 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248120503316 996 $aDemocracy from scratch$92330856 997 $aUNISA