Postcommunist Studies And Political Science : Methodology And Empirical Theory In Sovietology
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0367299429
ISBN-13
9780367299422
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2021
Print length
387 Pages
Weight
750 grams
Product Classification:
Political science & theoryMarxism & Communism
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This volume examines theoretical approaches and research methodologies to provide understanding of perestroika and post-communism. It focuses on the Soviet Union and its successor states, providing analysis applied to other Communist and post-Communist systems, especially in east-central Europe.
Serious stock-taking is in progress now among practitioners of whathas been called Sovietology, meaning studies of the Union of SovietSocialist Republics. The reason is that the field for the most part hadnot been expecting what happened in 1991: The USSR collapsed andwent out of existence as a unified state system governing a sixth ofthe world''s territory, having allowed its East European empire tofree itself from Soviet dominance somewhat earlier.It might be said in defense of Sovietology that, by the beginningof the 1980s, it understood that economic and political crises werebrewing in the Soviet Union and its outer empire. But the field asa whole failed to grasp the full depth of the systemic crisis in SovietRussia and the destructive or self-destructive potentialities inherentin it. As the editors of this valuable volume write in the Introduction:"Sovietology was not prepared for perestroika and postcommunism."
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