LEADER 03365nam 22005052 450 001 996248242703316 005 20160415142633.0 010 $a0-511-61353-9 035 $a(CKB)2610000000002728 035 $a(MH)008893382-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000459896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11298750 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000459896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10472640 035 $a(PQKB)11473807 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511613531 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4637651 035 $a(EXLCZ)992610000000002728 100 $a20141103d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGorbachev and Yeltsin as leaders /$fGeorge W. Breslauer$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-89244-9 311 $a0-521-81486-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Leadership strategies in Soviet and post-Soviet politics -- Gorbachev and Yeltsin : personalities and beliefs -- Rise of Gorbachev -- Gorbachev ascendant -- Gorbachev on the political defensive -- Yeltsin versus Gorbachev -- Yeltsin ascendant -- Yeltsin on the political defensive -- Yeltsin lashes out : the invasion of Chechnya (December 1994) -- Yeltsin's many last hurrahs -- Explaining leaders' choices, 1985-1999 -- Criteria for the evaluation of transformational leaders -- Evaluating Gorbachev as leader -- Evaluating Yeltsin as leader. 330 $aGorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders examines the strategies employed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to build leadership authority. Political leaders often use a combination of coercion, material reward, and persuasion, but Professor Breslauer focuses on the power of ideas, as leaders use them to mobilize support and to craft an image as effective problem solvers, indispensable consensus builders, and symbols of national unity. In Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders: Building Authority in Soviet Politics (1982), he documented Khrushchev's and Brezhnev's domestic policy strategies; this book handles domestic and foreign policies. All chapters compare Gorbachev and Yeltsin and Khrushchev and Brezhnev, mostly analyzing the changes in policy, the strategies, and the political dilemmas that are common to all four administrations. The book discusses the ways in which authority building was affected by political constraints unique to each of the stages. 517 3 $aGorbachev & Yeltsin as Leaders 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1985-1991 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991- 676 $a947.085/4 700 $aBreslauer$b George W.$0483622 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248242703316 996 $aGorbachev and Yeltsin as leaders$9267802 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress