Michal Reiman

About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present

'Prager Schriften zur Zeitgeschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen'. HC gerader Rücken kaschiert. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 192 Seiten
ISBN 3631671369
EAN 9783631671368
Veröffentlicht Juli 2016
Verlag/Hersteller Peter Lang
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Beschreibung

The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917-1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian movement, but rather a plebeian one. The misjudgment by the new power enabled growth but caused tremendous losses of human lives and material damages. Socialization of economy and strict centralization led to a new social structure and established terror as an instrument for social reorganization. WWII revealed the necessity of a correction of these developments, but the events of the Cold War circumvented any further considerations.

Portrait

Michal Reiman was Professor at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin and at the Institute for International Studies at Charles University Prague. He published in the USA, UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and the Czech Republic.