Donald J. Raleigh

In Stalin's shadow : the career of "Sergo" Ordzhonikidze

This first-of-its-kind survey covers both the basics of information technology and the managerial and political issues surrounding the use of these technologies. Unlike other works on information systems, this book is written specifically for the public sector and addresses unique public sector issues and concerns. The technical basics are explained in clear English with as little technical jargon as possible so that readers can move on to informed analysis of the public policy issues surrounding governments use of MIS. This practical tool includes end of chapter summaries with bridges to upcoming chapters, numerous boxed exhibits, thorough end-of-chapter notes and a bibliography for further reading.

The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs

Peter I, Ian E. Vodarskii Anna Ivanovna, E.V. Anisimov Elizaveta Petrovna, V.P. Naumov Peter III, A.S. Mylnikov Catherine II, A.B. Kamenskii Paul I, Iu A. Sorokin Alexander I, V.A. Fedorov Nicholas I, T.A. Kapustina Alexander II, L.G. Zakharova Alexander III, V.G. Chernukha Nicholas II, B.V. Ananich and R.Sh. Ganelin.

The Russian civil war, 1917–1922

A generation ago, the nature of available sources as well as dominant paradigms in the historical profession led Western historians of the civil war to focus on military operations, allied intervention and politics at the top. The origins of the Russian civil war can be found in the desacralisation of the tsarist autocracy that took place in the years before the First World War. War, geopolitics and the prolonged crisis beginning in 1914 shaped the emerging Bolshevik party-state, which differed radically from the utopian views of the commune state that Lenin had formulated in 1917 in his State and Revolution. Bent on retaining power and the symbols of legitimacy, the Bolsheviks disagreed over how best to implement new cultural practices, which they saw as essential to the success of their revolution. Centring on procurement, Bolshevik economic practices alienated the peasantry and contributed to the famine of 1921-23.

Final Report of the Joint Task Force on Archives American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and The American Historical Association 1 April 1995

The following Report on Archives has been submitted to the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the Council of the American Historical Association. The Task Force urges those who wish to comment on the report to forward their remarks to the Board of AAASS, cdo Dr. Carol Saivetz, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, and/or to Lynne Lee, Research Division of the AHA, 400A Street SE, Washington D.C. 20003.

I Speak Frankly Because You Are My Friend: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev’s Personal Relationship with Richard M. Nixon

Drawing on historian Frank Costigliola’s accent on the importance of “emotional belief” in understanding how statesmen formulate foreign policy, I apply this cultural approach to diplomacy in considering Soviet leader Leonid Ilich Brezhnev’s personal relationship with President Richard M. Nixon. Appreciating both the merits and difficulties in employing this “soft” methodology to diplomacy, I draw on recently published documents, memoirs, and available archival material to examine the evolution of Brezhnev’s relationship with Nixon at three summit meetings held in Moscow in 1972, in Washington in 1973, and, again in Moscow in 1974, weeks before Nixon’s resignation. I argue that Brezhnev’s emotional belief convinced him of the need to go beyond the evidence to cultivate a personal relationship with Nixon based at first on suspicion, then on cautious courting, and eventually on trust so that Brezhnev could achieve his aims of promoting the cause of peace.

Russia's Favorite

The disruptive effects of postcommunist instability have raised the approval ratings given by the general public to Leonid Brezhnev and have prompted scholarly reappraisals of his regime.

Out of the Dustbin of History

A provocative theme discussed in contemporary social theory is the notion that ‘societies exert control over their subjects not just by imposing constraints on them but by predetermining the ways they attempt to rebel against those constraints, by co-opting their strategies of dissent’.1 This idea owes a good deal to the work of the French intellectual Michel Foucault, who investigated the ways in which power tends to organise and channel dissenting forces, rather than repress them.2 The purpose of this chapter is to apply these insights to a preliminary study of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Saratov province during the Civil War. Drawing on materials found in the former Saratov and Central Communist Party Archives, as well as on related archive material and published records,3 I seek to retrieve the party from the dustbin of history by clarifying its contribution to the survival of Soviet power, its relationship to Bolshevism, and the reasons for the Revolutionary Communists’ ultimate decline in 1920.