Böcker i Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies-serien

In An Algebra of Soviet Power, Michael Urban adopts a fresh approach and introduces into the field of political elite studies the sociological technique of vacancy chain analysis.

This book, first published in 1981, represents a systematic attempt to describe and analyse the evolution of Soviet trade union organisations. It examines union activities both at the national level and on the shop floor. The main focus is on the development and workings of the Soviet trade unions, but their history throughout the Soviet period is also covered.

This book first published in 1982 considers the problems of efficiently managing large enterprises which are common to both the West and to the Soviet Union. The growth in management science in the West has been paralleled in the Soviet Union in the years since Khrushchev's fall.

Professor Berend presents a comprehensive inside account of Hungary's economic reforms since the 1950s. Working from Communist Party archives, which have hitherto partially remained closed to scholars, Berend situates the history of these economic reforms within their political context, looking in particular at the role of the Soviet Union.

Soviet Criminal Justice Under Stalin, first published in 1997, is a comprehensive account of Stalin's struggle to make criminal law a reliable instrument of rule. This book appeals to anyone interested in the political, social, or legal history of the USSR, judicial reform in post-Soviet states, and law in authoritarian regimes.

This book focuses on how women, peasants, and orphans responded to Bolshevik attempts to remake the family, and how their opinions and experiences in turn were used by the state to meet its own needs.

This book is about social change in the Soviet Union. It explores the way in which the social, economic and political transformations encompassed by modernization affect values and behaviours. Its analytical focus is the family and the system of norms and values governing sex roles and familial relations.

The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the century, this pathbreaking study analyses Solidarity's significance in Soviet societies.

Originally published in 1990, Polish Journalists: Professionalism and Politics is a study of how, in the face of constant political instructions and restrictions, Polish journalists act as independent forces in their society.

Research on women's roles in rural development has found that women's contribution to the rural economy is commonly underestimated and that women may find it difficult to benefit from the development process. Within this context, this book looks at the Soviet experience of development as reflected in the lives of rural women.

This book, first published in 1997, offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish economy since 1971.

How did the Soviet Union compare economically with its allies and adversaries before and during World War II? Was Soviet economic survival under massive German attack to be expected? What did the war cost in rubles, lives and forgone postwar economic well-being? This book answers these questions, providing a comprehensive analysis of the hitherto secret Soviet statistical record.

This book is about the impact of World War II on the Soviet system of economic planning. It assesses the prewar Soviet economic system, how the economy measured up to wartime requirements, and the lessons laid down for the postwar Soviet approach to both peaceful and warlike tasks.

This book tells how the Soviet Union fed itself after the invasion by the Germans in 1941. As well as making extensive use of American and German archives from the war period, the author interviewed more than thirty Soviet emigres who survived the war.

The Stakhanovite movement in the Soviet Union commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the state urged workers to achieve greater productivity. As Lewis Siegelbaum demonstrates, Stakhanovism can be used to explore the social relations within Soviet industry at a critical stage in its development.

Latin America through Soviet Eyes provides an original and comprehensive assessment of changing Soviet perceptions of politics in Latin America during the Brezhnev years. Dr Prizel surveys the views of Soviet academics and journalists as well as of politicians on three main areas.

John Klier examines Russian public opinion on the 'Jewish Question' in the Russian Empire during a period of sweeping social and political reform. He studies the manner in which public opinion influenced, and was influenced by state policy towards the Jews, and traces the roots of modern antisemitism throughout Eastern Europe.

Examining the recent history of Poland, Russia and Ukraine, this book examines how national identity affects foreign policy decisions.

This book analyses Hungarian collectivization from a sociological perspective. Its focus is on the production of social wealth, and the relations which circumscribe it, rather than on the ways in which wealth is distributed and consumed.

Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies. She describes a tragic situation where Polish soldiers were trapped between the unrealistic plans of their government and the harsh realities of a war which they fought with no prospect of a satisfactory outcome for them or their country.

A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. He concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe.

This book examines what observers of foreign policy within the Soviet Union have been saying to each other over the last twenty years. The author shows how phenomena such as nuclear warfare, western prosperity, and the Sino-Soviet split have enforced analysts to diverge from Leninist orthodoxy, giving a surprisingly complex and sophisticated analysis of world politics.

This 1991 book makes an important contribution to the evaluation of the origins of Stalinism. Dr Hughes presents an in depth examination of the crisis of the New Economic Policy from the regional perspective of Siberia and analyses the events and pressures 'from below', at the grassroots level of Soviet society.

This book reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations under Lenin. It examines the decision to import vast quantities of railway equipment in order to achieve rapid economic modernization, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.

This book examines the little-known phenomenon of blat - the use of informal contacts and personal networks to obtain goods and services under the rationing which pervaded Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva analyses the historical, socio-economic, and cultural aspects of blat, and explores its implications for post-Soviet Russia.

In this book, first published in 1996, Rudolf Toekes gives an in-depth account of Hungary's peaceful transformation from one-party state to parliamentary democracy, and a comprehensive assessment of Hungary's post-Communist politics, economy and society.

Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905 examines the emergence of right-wing organisations in Russia during the political crisis of 1905-1907.

This book provides an exceptionally thorough treatment of the Hungarian economy and its experience of economic reform. Within a wider discussion of the appliance and success of Soviet-type economies (STEs), the author investigates the decentralising measures and market mechanisms which have been progressively introduced and considers the limits on and limitations of the Hungarian economic model.

In this book, Graeme Gill offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. He examines the relationship between institutional structures and the conventions, which are created to shape the activities of individuals and considers centre/periphery relations.

Rapid industrialization, which the Bolsheviks believed would dissolve the non-Russian national identities and stabilize the new political order, ended up strengthening national assertiveness. This book analyzes the precarious relationship between Soviet legitimacy-building and industrial revolution in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.