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Richard Sakwa (ed.), The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe; Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New York: [...]

J.A. Dunn (ed.), Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe. Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St [...]

Seven years have passed since the Journal of Byelorussian Studies passed away, leaving not so much a gap as a vacuum in the space where scholarly publication on Belarus in [...]

This volume is a part of a series published under the title 'Studies of Communism in Transition' which applies academic analysis to the recent events in Eastern and Central Europe. [...]

Ian D. Thatcher (ed.), Regime and Society in Twentieth-Century Russia. Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: [...]

Judith Pallot, Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1998, xix+ 264 pp., [pounds]45.00. Judith Pallot has divided the papers [...]

Martin Nicholson, Towards a Russia of the Regions. Adelphi Paper 330, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 88 pp. This paper is written by a former British diplomat [...]

The political maturity of the miners working in the Kuzbass region of Russia can be observed from their pattern of voting from 1991 to 1996 and their attitude towards democracy and reform. It was initially observed that the workers were demoralized from the results of the 'perestroika.' However, they are persistent in their belief that the democratic reforms may still bring about economic benefits., In 1991, I voted for El'tsin. And I did not vote just with my ballot paper ... I voted with my soul. - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Rod. Miner. Working pensioner. Son [...]

Alec Nove was a distinguished British political economist, writer and scholar who was an expert on the Soviet economy, politics and sociology. He wrote papers analyzing the theoretical problems of socialism and was considered a perceptive critic of the economic policies that were adopted during Russia's transition into a market economy. His expertise on Sovietology made him a much-sought after speaker in academic circles. Nove also served in the British military and in the British Board of Trade., Alec Nove, for long Britain's most distinguished Sovietologist, was a political economist in a tradition which is now in danger of being squeezed out of university departments. He knew in [...]

The political mentality of members of Russian political parties was studied by using methodologies based on personal construct psychology and multidimensional scaling. A survey was conducted between July and Sept. 1993 on 1,059 political party members in Moscow and 124 members in the city of Samara. Participants were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with 150 statements on economic, political and foreign policies and issues. It was concluded that the attitudes of the respondents indicated a shift from statehood controversies to a focus on social and economic issues, an increased emphasis on human rights and a lesser emphasis on the importance of acceptance or rejection of communist ideology., This study(1) forms part of a series of papers researching into the political mentality of Russia and the countries of the CIS, using a technique devised by Petrenko and Mitina [...]

Krest'yanskaya gazeta was a major peasant newspaper in the 1920s and 1930s that apparently had a strong impact on politics extending from its readers through the NKVD. Some of its editorial records recently became available, and they reveal the extent to which the paper bolstered Stakhanovism at the same time that excessive bureaucracy fostered its opponents. The process of analyzing the records indicates the importance of seeking new questions to ask in historical research., Reaction to the release of archival materials has been mixed. Despite general euphoria about greater openness, there are those who consider that already accumulated knowledge of the past will not [...]

Anyone interested in environmental and health issues in post-socialist Eastern Europe will find the two recent World Bank Technical Papers discussed below both informative and troubling. While each deals with [...]

Anyone interested in environmental and health issues in post-socialist Eastern Europe will find the two recent World Bank Technical Papers discussed below both informative and troubling. While each deals with [...]

As described in the preface, this is an edited volume derived from papers presented by East European economists at conferences in Chile and Prague during the early 1990s, and supplemented [...]

This book contains 15 papers originally presented at a conference organised by UNCTAD and the KOPINT-DATORG Foundation for Economic Research in Budapest in May 1993. They are divided into four [...]

This is an important volume of some 15 papers dealing with the world-wide trend towards the market. The question mark in the title reflects the uncertainty surrounding the direction and [...]

This work is composed of papers presented at the biennial RAND-Hoover symposium in November 1992. With the title 'The Role of the Military Sector in the Economies of Russia and [...]

This volume is the published version of those papers which focused on the USSR presented at a conference in Tbilisi in October 1990 organised by IIASA (Austria) together with institutes [...]

David Reese, The Prospects for North Korea's Survival. Adelphi Paper 323. Oxford: Oxford University Press and International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1998, 95 pp., [pounds]14.99 p/b. The findings of this [...]

Pekka Sutela, The Road to the Russian Market Economy, Selected Essays, 1993-1998. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications, 1998, 310 pp. WHY PUBLISH A COLLECTION OF PAPERS previously published elsewhere? The answer may [...]

Sue Bridger (ed.), Women and Political Change. Perspectives from East-Central Europe. Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999, xii [...]

Stanislav J. Kirschbaum (ed.), Historical Reflections on Central Europe. Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New York: St [...]

K. Matsuzato & A. B. Shatilov (eds), Regiony Rossii. Khronika i Rukovoditeli. 4 Volumes. Sapporo: Slavic Research Center (Occasional Papers on Changes in the Slavic-Eurasian World, Nos 33-36), 1997. These [...]

Issues discussed concern the management of Russia's Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), focusing on the unstable interaction between the member states with regards to economic policies. Topics addressed include trade between the countries, military and security concerns, and political obstacles to integration., SEVEN YEARS AFTER ITS CREATION, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has failed to integrate the Soviet successor states in any meaningful sense. Although, on paper, it has been the [...]

William E. Ferry & Roger E. Kanet (eds), Post-Communist States in the World Community. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, xvii + 305 PP., [pounds]47.50. THIS VOLUME CONSISTS OF 15 selected conference papers [...]

Ray Taras (ed.), National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, xii + 228 pp., [Pounds]45.00. COLLECTIONS OF SELECTED PAPERS from academic conferences and congresses proverbially constitute [...]

This collection of papers by a group of academic and professional economists and lawyers is devoted to two interrelated processes of great concern for transition economies: demonopolisation and the development [...]

This is a collection based on papers presented at conferences organised by the European Science Foundation's Programme on European Management and Organisations in Transition (EMOT). The Introductory Part consists of [...]

This collection of conference papers is published three years after the event; despite the obvious danger of built-in obsolescence, most of the contributions remain highly relevant to the problems faced [...]

This is a disparate collection of workshop papers, given by students and staff of the History Department at CEU, which briefly considers the position of women in Central and Eastern [...]

Ljubo Sirc, Criticism of Self-Management Still Relevant? London: Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1994, 134 pp., 7.50 [pounds]. This is a valuable collection of papers providing a comprehensive critique [...]

This readable and scholarly volume contains seven papers from the 1990 Harrogate ICSEES Congress by American scholars, one by a Swedish and one by a Russian academic. They are concerned [...]

A shiny green billboard shouts its message down at passersby on the dirt road that snakes along the Dulcepampa River: 'Clean energy for everyone! San Jose del Tambo hydroelectric Project.' [...]

Speaking in Quechua, her voice thick with despair and fury, the elderly Dona Yolanda Quispe told me how the gold mines on the mountain summit above her village in Southern [...]

In June 1971, Panamanian plainclothes agents arrested Father Hector Gallego, a young priest heading a Christian peasant movement in the country's mountains. Thousands mobilized to demand Gallego's safe release, while [...]

If it has not already done so, China is now poised to overtake the United States as the world's largest economy. For Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), this has [...]

With thousands of unaccompanied Central American minors turning themselves in to U.S. immigration officials, a new conservative talking point holds that regional newspapers are inaccurately reporting on U.S. immigration policy, [...]

Cuernavaca, Saturday, June 13, 1998: At 1:55 in the afternoon I park my pickup truck on Avenida Central, across the street from La Harinera, about a block from the big [...]

IN THE LATE 1970S, THE U.S. CONGRESS BEGAN TO DEBATE the bills that eventually resulted in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)--still the touchstone for ongoing battles over [...]

MOST OF THE UNIONS THAT EXIST IN MEXICO'S maquila sector--the duty-free assembly plants that import raw materials and intermediate goods, and then export final products for consumption elsewhere--exist only on [...]

THE CENTRAL PURPOSE OF THE North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which celebrated its twentieth anniversary on January 1, was the consolidation of the neoliberal domestic agendas of the three [...]

IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS of November 25, with less than half the votes counted, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Lisa Kubiske congratulated Hondurans on a 'transparent,' 'democratic celebration' in the [...]

LEONARDO PADURA FUENTES WAS BORN IN HAVANA and grew up in the dusty popular neighborhood of Mantilla, in the south of the city where his grandfather was born. He studied [...]

TRADITIONALLY, THE MIGRANT FLOW FROM MEXICO to the United States has been concentrated in California, Texas, Arizona, and Chicago, but since the late 1980s, migrant settlements have been diversifying and [...]

HECTOR FIGUEROA IS THE PRESIDENT OF LOCAL 32BJ of the Service Employees international Union (SEIU). Based in New York City, 32BJ has 145,000 members along the eastern seaboard, making it [...]

IN OUR MARCH 1971 ISSUE, NACLA OFFERED AN English-language translation of the Basic Program of Chile's just elected Popular Unity government. 'As far as we know,' wrote NACLA's editors, 'this [...]

ALI PRIMERA WAS-AND NEARLY THREE DECADES after his death, continues to be--one of the more popular singers in Venezuela. Among his devoted fans was the late Hugo Chavez, who, in [...]

IN MARCH 2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED THAT hundreds of immigrants detained throughout the United States were being held in solitary confinement, some for several months at a time. [...]