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Legacy of the
Soviet Bloc
by Jane Shapiro Zacek and Ilpyong J. Kim
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Contributors consider why communist political systems in the
USSR, Eastern Europe, China, and the developing world could not
be revamped so as to allow communist parties to retain political
power within an environment of reform. Among the issues discussed
are the unwillingness of communist parties to relinquish real
political and economic control; the reemergence of virulent
nationalism and its role in ensuring the disintegration of
multinational states; postcommunist transition strategies, both
political and economic; and the degree of continuity or change
between Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policies in Russia.
These previously unpublished essays have in common most of their
authors’ participation--thirty-five years ago--in a
year-long graduate seminar at Columbia University entitled
"The Communist Orbit." The book is dedicated to one of
their teachers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born former
national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter and professor
of government who was one of the first to predict publicly, in
1988, the disintegration of the communist system.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Transformation of Communist Rule, by Jane
Shapiro Zacek
1. The Soviet Military Changes Names, by William E. Odom
2. Creating Political Capital? by Barbara Ann Chotiner
3. The Communist Party on the Eve of Collapse: Changing Patterns
of Political Behavior, by Cynthia S. Kaplan and Henry E. Brady
4. Reorganizing Intergovernmental Relations in the USSR, by Jane
Shapiro Zacek
5. August 1991 in Comparative Perspective: Moscow and Kiev, by
Zenovia A. Sochor
6. From Evil Empire to Democratic Capitalism: Alternative Russian
Futures, by Nils H. Wessell
7. Balkan Politics in Transition: Nationalism and the Emergence
of Ethnic Democracies, by Lenard J. Cohen
8. Polish Transition Strategy: Successes and Failures, by Lucja
Swiatkowski Cannon
9. The Security of East Central Europe and the Visegrad Triangle,
by Andrzej Korbonski
10. Chinese Foreign Policy During and After the Cold War, by
Thomas W. Robinson
11. Russia and the Two Koreas in the Post-Cold War Era: Dynamics
of New Relationships, by Ilpyong J. Kim
12. Soviet-Israeli Relations in the Gorbachev Era, by Robert O.
Freedman
13. Marxist Regimes in Developing Areas and Changes in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe, by David E. Albright.
Jane Shapiro Zacek is adjunct professor of
political science at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and
author or coeditor of nine other books, including Reform and
Transformation in Communist Systems (1991), and Establishing
Democratic Rule (1993).
Ilpyong J. Kim is
professor of political science at the University of Connecticut,
Storrs and author or editor of sixteen books, including Two
Koreas in Transition: Implications for U.S. Policy (1996).
1997. 328 pp. 6 X 9.
4 figures, 5 tables,
notes, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1475-1
Cloth, $55.00s
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"This collection brings together useful analytical pieces written by recognized scholars of Soviet affairs." -- Perspectives on Political Science
"An excellent book. . . . I doubt if a single scholar
exists who could cover such a wide range of problems with the
depth of analysis that we find in this volume."--Darrell P.
Hammer, Indiana University
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