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- catalog abstract "Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia's Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why the Congress of People's Deputies, and the other newly elected institutions founded under perestroika, not only failed to prevent, but also seemed to speed up and provoke, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. By studying the early history of the Congress, the book seeks insights on the prospects for democracy in Russia. Following an inquiry into the roots of Soviet political culture and the implications for future representative institutions, the book then examines the genesis of the Congress of People's Deputies and attempts a hermeneutical reconstruction of the deputies' models of social reality, as expressed in the texts of their parliamentary debates. The authors argue that the adoption of the concept of sobornost - a belief in society's organic unity - as the basic model for this institution proved utterly inadequate to the challenges the country faced. Including substantial new source material which is being made available in English for the first time, Russia's Road to Democracy presents an in-depth analysis with conclusions that contradict the hitherto prevailing theoretical assumptions.".
- catalog contributor b5376234.
- catalog contributor b5376235.
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-221) and index.".
- catalog description "Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia's Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why the Congress of People's Deputies, and the other newly elected institutions founded under perestroika, not only failed to prevent, but also seemed to speed up and provoke, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. By studying the early history of the Congress, the book seeks insights on the prospects for democracy in Russia. Following an inquiry into the roots of Soviet political culture and the implications for future representative institutions, the book then examines the genesis of the Congress of People's Deputies and attempts a hermeneutical reconstruction of the deputies' models of social reality, as expressed in the texts of their parliamentary debates. The authors argue that the adoption of the concept of sobornost - a belief in society's organic unity - as the basic model for this institution proved utterly inadequate to the challenges the country faced. Including substantial new source material which is being made available in English for the first time, Russia's Road to Democracy presents an in-depth analysis with conclusions that contradict the hitherto prevailing theoretical assumptions.".
- catalog extent "xi, 227 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Russia's road to democracy.".
- catalog identifier "1852788518 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Russia's road to democracy.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies of communism in transition".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar,".
- catalog relation "Russia's road to democracy.".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
- catalog subject "947.086 20".
- catalog subject "JN6554 .S33 1993".
- catalog subject "Post-communism Russia (Federation)".
- catalog subject "Soviet Union. Sʺezd Narodnykh Deputatov History.".
- catalog title "Russia's road to democracy : parliament, communism, and traditional culture / Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".