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Russia's Revolution from Above : Reform, Transition, and Revolution in the Fa...
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- Russia's Revolution from Above : Reform, Transition, and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, Hardcover by Hahn, Gordon M., ISBN 0765800497, ISBN-13 9780765800497, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Arguing that the nature of the transition of the former Soviet Union needs to be recognized as a revolutionary mode of regime transformation "from above" or within the state itself, political scientist Hahn (Stanford U.) contends that the failure to recognize this fact is the reason many fail to understand the nature of current Russian institutions. The transition, in essence, was a bureaucratic revolution of Communist Party apparatchiks led by Boris Yeltsin. He explains how Yeltsin and his cohorts used the laws, institutions, and presidential decrees of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) to transfer human, economic, and natural resources from the hands of the Soviet Union to the RSFSR. The revolutionaries from above rarely attempted to mobilize the masses, except on occasion to defend the old party bureaucrats. For Hahn, this explains the illiberal nature of the current Russian regime. The group left in power has a limited understanding of, and a weak commitment to building political and economic institutions based on the rule of law. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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