This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent... more

This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan’s emergence as an independent... more

This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining pop... more

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of V... more

This book examines the interplay between key rulers and intellectuals in creating and sustaining pop... more

focus on Yan and his work also demonstrates the role of ideology in a totalitarian society. Shlapentokh shows that ideology...... more

soil. In The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life, Dmitry Shlapentokh describes the role that the French...... more

part in the movement toward modernization. Beginning with Stalin, Vladimir Shlapentokh explores the mutual need and...... more

Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal...... more

others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that...... more

part in the movement toward modernization. Beginning with Stalin, Vladimir Shlapentokh explores the mutual need and...... more

enabled a degree of freedom while simultaneously supporting authoritarianism. Based on case studies, Vladimir Shlapentokh and...... more

ordinances and rules seems contrary and therefore difficult for most citizens to accept. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley...... more

big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods...... more

The book analyzes Soviet society as a ’hard reality’, emphasizes the varying perceptions of it in th... more

soil. In The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life, Dmitry Shlapentokh describes the role that the French...... more

Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal...... more

The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the mo... more

The book offers a theoretical discussion of the feudal model and a preliminary application of the mo... more

brutal forms of state control have been the only way to maintain basic social order. Dmitry Shlapentokh seeks to show that...... more

In the late sixties Matiyasevich, building on the work of Davis, Putnam and Robinson, showed that th... more

Opposing mainstream social science, usually hostile towards coercion and the state, the author sees ... more

the center and provinces in the coming decades.Shlapentokh, Levita, and Loiberg direct their attention not only to factors...... more

This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin’s death through the So... more

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinke... more

developments. Throughout the period, the eminent Sovietologist Vladimir Shlapentokh monitored the revolution and recorded his...... more

Shlapentokh . . . former senior fellow at Moscow’s Institute of Sociology, has written an important study of responses...... more

This is the first book to view Soviet ideology and public opinion from the perspective of Soviet myt... more

This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled "State Organized Terror: The Case of V... more

brutal forms of state control have been the only way to maintain basic social order. Dmitry Shlapentokh seeks to show that...... more

ordinances and rules seems contrary and therefore difficult for most citizens to accept. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley...... more

The United States is not the only global center as it was in the first years of post-Cold War era. N... more

big money, private security, and personal relations determine key social outcomes? Vladimir Shlapentokh and Joshua Woods...... more

Throughout most of Russian history, two views of who the Russians are have dominated the minds of Ru... more

This volume is a cross-national and comparative analysis of how fear shapes and dominates political,... more

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin s death...... more

their experiences and their definitions of the new elite to this book, edited by Vladimir Shlapentokh, Christopher...... more

With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence o... more

, Shlapentokh examines Gorbachev’s reforms as an attempt by the political elite to restore the authority of the state and the...... more

With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence o... more