Robert Legvold
Biographic Data
| ID | 197884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Legvold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Legvold |
| SIGNATURE | LEGVOLD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Academy of Nursing |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 468 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 467 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 28 |
Thirty Years After
As is often the case, personal changes eventually manifested themselves at the macro level as well, for example, in international relations. The United States and the USSR, which had been trading recriminations in the ideological domain for decades, did not reconcile with the fall of communism in our country. Taken aback by the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union, the two sides spent a couple of years in a state of indifferent equilibrium, bu…
Introduction
The world has entered a new nuclear era whose characteristics and challenges differ markedly from those of the Cold War. No longer dominated by only two nuclear superpowers (even if Russia and the United States still possess the lion's share of nuclear weapons), its dangers are at least as great as those during the Cold War, and made more so by a general unawareness of the multiplying ways a nuclear war could begin. Five nuclear-armed states – Ch…
Conclusion
If the fear of nuclear war has faded as the Cold War recedes into the misty past, we may need to remind ourselves of what these weapons can do. At least five of the nine countries that currently possess nuclear weapons can deliver thermonuclear warheads, each with the explosive equivalent of several hundred thousand tons of TNT, nearly halfway around the Earth.1 The intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched ballistic miss…
Stalin's Foreign Policy Reappraised
In this book, Marshall D. Shulman emphasizes that an analysis of Soviet foreign policy during the closing years of Stalin's life from the perspective of the present calls into question many common assumptions about the character of that policy
Return to Cold War
"The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, Robert Legvold, explores in detail this qualitatively new phase in a relationship that has alternated between hope and disappointment for much of the past two dec…
Khrushchev's Cold War
The Foe within
Logics of Hierarchy
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia
An Infamous Past
More than any other study of Cioran, Marta Petreu's intensive investigation of his life and work confronts the central problem of his biography: his relationship with political extremism. The scene of Cioran's excesses is Romania and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, a time of xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, Nazism, and Stalinism. Norman Manea's Foreword reminds us of Cioran's stature in Western intellectual circles and explains the critical impo…
The Baltic
Moscow 1941
Russian Oil Supply
The Defeat of Solidarity
Ivan's War
Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism
Official corruption has become increasingly prevalent around the world since the early 1990s. The situation appears to be particularly acute in the post-communist states. Corruption - be it real or perceived - is a major problem with concrete implications, including a lowered likelihood of foreign investment. In Rotten States? Leslie Holmes analyzes corruption in post-communist countries, paying particular attention to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, …
The World Was Going Our Way
Presents a history of KGB Cold War operations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America, documenting attempts by the Soviet intelligence service to discredit the United States and foster anti-Americanism in those regions
Putin's Russia
Democracy Derailed in Russia
1. Introduction 2. Some concepts and how they apply to Russia 3. Symptoms of the failure of democracy 4. The Russian condition in global perspective 5. The structural problem: grease and glitter 6. The policy problem: economic statism 7. The institutional problem: superpresidentialism 8. Can democracy get back on track
Anna of All the Russias
Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State
1. Electoral markets and Russia's political smorgasboard 2. Party entrepreneurship in Russia's electoral market, 1989-2004 3. How much party is in the party system? 4. Electoral markets and party substitutes in Russia: origins and impact 5. Parties and party substitutes: determining the balance 6. Conclusion: the market model and theories of parties, national integration, and transitions from authoritarian rule
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics
Sketches from a Secret War
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles--intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, lifelong conspirator. Henryk Jozewski directed Polish intelligence in Ukraine, governed the borderland region of Volhynia in the interwar years, worked in the anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet underground during…
The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy
A revolution is under way in Soviet foreign policy greater than any in the postwar period, indeed greater than any since Lenin in the early years of his regime accepted the failure of the pan-European revolution and allowed the Soviet Union to join the game of nations. The revolution in Soviet foreign policy is occurring on yet another level, where notions more directly inform practical choice, the level of policy concepts. If Soviet leaders are …
The sino-russian challenge to the world order
The Reconstruction of Nations
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and examines Poland's recent successful negotiations with…
Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State
1. Electoral markets and Russia's political smorgasboard 2. Party entrepreneurship in Russia's electoral market, 1989-2004 3. How much party is in the party system? 4. Electoral markets and party substitutes in Russia: origins and impact 5. Parties and party substitutes: determining the balance 6. Conclusion: the market model and theories of parties, national integration, and transitions from authoritarian rule
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus is a gripping account of the developmental dynamics involved in the collapse of Soviet socialism. Fusing a narrative of human agency to his critical discussion of structural forces, Georgi M. Derluguian reconstructs from first-hand accounts the life story of Musa Shanib - who from a small town in the Caucasus grew to be a prominent leader in the Chechen revolution. In his examination of Shanib and his kee…
Black Garden
Black Garden is the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, got sucked into a conflict that helped bring them to independence, bringing to an end the Soviet Union, and plaguing a region of great strategic importance. It cuts between a careful reconstruction of the history of Nagorny Karabakh conflict since 1988 and on-the-spot reporting on its convoluted aftermath. Part contemporary history, part travel book…
The Affirmative Action Empire
The Living and the Dead
This eye-opening book shows how Communist state and party authorities stage-managed the Soviets memory of World War II, transforming a national trauma into a heroic exploit that glorified the party while systematically concealing the disastrous mistakes and criminal cruelties committed by the Stalinist tyranny
Making War, Forging Revolution
Note on Usage Introduction 1. Russia at War 2. Radiant Days of Freedom 3. Persuasion and Force 4. Toward Civil War 5. Forging a Social Movement 6. We Will Have to Exterminate the Cossacks 7. Psychological Consolidation 8. The Revolution as Orthodoxy Conclusion: The Emergence of the Soviet State Note on Sources Abbreviations Notes Index
Engaging Eurasia's Separatist States
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, secessionist forces carved four de facto states from parts of Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Ten years on, those states are mired in uncertainty. Beset by internal problems, fearful of a return to the violence that spawned them, and isolated and unrecognized internationally, they survive behind cease fire lines that have temporarily frozen but not resolved their conflicts with the metropolita…
Democracy Derailed in Russia
1. Introduction 2. Some concepts and how they apply to Russia 3. Symptoms of the failure of democracy 4. The Russian condition in global perspective 5. The structural problem: grease and glitter 6. The policy problem: economic statism 7. The institutional problem: superpresidentialism 8. Can democracy get back on track
The Moldovans
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured
The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Money Unmade
Bosnia
Bosnia: A Short History was celebrated on its first publication as a brilliant work of history which set the terrible war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context. This revised edition has been updated with a new chapter that covers the events of 1993-1995 and remains the definitive work on the complex history of Bosnia. 'A quite brilliant piece of historical record-straightening. Everyone who wishes to have an opinion about Bo…
The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR
The Russian Mafia
Introduction I. THE TRANSITION TO THE MARKET AND PROTECTION IN RUSSIA 1. The Transition to the Market 2. The State as Supplier of Protection 3. Varieties of Protectors II. PRIVATE PROTECTION IN PERM 4. Searching for Protection 5. The Contract and the Services III. THE RUSSIAN MAFIA 6. The Mafia in Perm 7. Mafia Ancestors: The vory-v-zakone, 1920s-1950s 8. The Rusian Mafia Conclusion
Veiled Empire
The Soviet Experiment
Introduction: Utopia and its DiscontentsPart I: Crisis and Revolution1. The Imperial LegacyLand and PeopleAutocracy, Nobility, and BureaucracyThe Coming of CapitalismThe Russian IntelligentsiaMarx, Lenin, and the Case of RussiaEmpire and Nation in Tsarist RussiaThe Final Crisis of TsarismThe Tsar's Last WarSuggestions for Further Reading2. The Double RevolutionThe February Revolution and the End of Romanov Rule Overlapping Revolutions, Dual Power…
The Oligarchs
Focusing on six of Russia's most feared power brokers - the oligarchs, David Hoffman reveals how a few players managed to take over Russia's cash-strapped economy and then divvy it up in loans-for-shares deals. Before perestroika, these men were normal Soviet citizens, stuck in a dead-end system, claustrophobic apartments, and long bread lines. But as Communism loosened, they found gaps in the economy and reaped huge fortunes by getting their han…
Varieties of Transition
Preface. 1. The Structure of Industrial Societies: The Joint Characteristics and Shortcomings of State Socialist Societies and Democratic Capitalism. 2. Prosperity, Nation, Republic: Modes of Societal Integration and the Unique German Journey from Socialism to Capitalism. 3. Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe. 4. Ethnic Politics in East European Transitions. 5. Disqualification, …
Armageddon Averted
Justice in the Balkans
Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With Slobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow indictees currently detained, the success of the Hague tribunal has forced many to reconsider the…
The Black Book of Communism
Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity Martin Malia * Introduction: The Crimes of Communism Stephane Courtois I. A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union Nicolas Werth * Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution * The Iron Fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat * The Red Terror * The Dirty War * From Tambov to the Great Famine * From the Truce to the Great Turning Point * Forced Collec…
Ideas and International Political Change
The peaceful end of the Cold War brought about an amazing transformation of international politics, and at the heart of the change was a struggle over new and old ideas, contends Jeffrey Checkel in this absorbing book. He explores political change in the late Soviet period and in post-Soviet Russia and offers fascinating theoretical insights into the effect of ideas on state behavior
Slaughterhouse
National Purpose in the World Economy
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link betwe…
Soviet Policy in West Africa
This is a study of Soviet policy in six West African countries: Ghana, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Robert Legvold analyzes the awakening of Soviet Interest in sub-Saharan Africa and the growth, problems, and influences of the Soviet involvement from Ghana's independence in 1957 to 1968. Those nations are significant not only because they were the first African colonies to achieve independence and therefore have had the lo…
Soviet Policy in West Africa
Soviet Policy in West Africa
Soviet-African Relations
The economics and politics of East-West relations
Conceived modestly, the idea of East-West interdependence offers a convenient framework for exploring the intersection of politics with economics, of national economic goals with international economic relations, and, ultimately, of East-West efforts to increase economic cooperation with Western efforts to restructure international economic institutions. By interdependence we do not mean to imply a decisive set of arrangements, capable of impingi…
The Nature of Soviet Power
Strategic ‘doctrine’ and Salt
The Super Rivals
Containment without Confrontation
Reagan Through Soviet Eyes
Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction negotiations to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)-it is important to take a hard look at the deeper trends in U.S.-Soviet relations. The trends, frankly, are far more discouraging and potentially dangerous than is understood by many American commentators, who know little of the mood in Moscow. And these developments will continue even if Andropov is gone tomorrow. It would be wonderful if the Soviet Un…
South Africa and Its Neighbors
The Revolution in Soviet Foreign Policy
Soviet Policy in East Asia
Soviet-American Relations after the Cold War
The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World
The Socialist Economies in Transition
PREFACE 1. Introduction 2. A Perfect-Administration Interpretation of the Soviet-type Economy Actors, Sectoring, Administration, and Markets in the Classic CPE What Is Administration or Management? Functions of Management Is Perfect Administration Possible? Soviet-type Economic Bureaucracies A Possible Model of Perfect Administration 3. Resource Allocation in the Classic CPE Short-run Balancing Control-Evaluating Performance and Passing Out Rewar…
Eastern Europe in the Postwar World
Restructuring the Soviet Economy
Gorbachev's Retreat
The Collapse of State Socialism
Nationalism and Policy toward the Nationalities in the Soviet Union
The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union
Five Years That Shook the World
Yugoslav-American Relations since World War II
Stalin
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