Archie Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594252 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Archie Brown |
| NOMBRES | Archie |
| APELLIDO | Brown |
| FIRMA | BROWN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Political Leadership and Democracy
Years of
The Self‐Magnification of British Leaders
Within the extensive literature on the powers and constraints of British prime ministers, there has been little comparison of the extent to which the premiers themselves have perceived or projected a personal entitlement to determine government policy. Using both quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article compares prime ministers who have asserted a right to be the ultimate decision maker with those who have embraced, and even emphasised…
Female (and Asian) leaders better than males in battle against Covid
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Father of Russian Jurisprudence
Desnitskii was the leading explicator in Catherine II ’s Russia of British thought, especially that of the Scottish Enlightenment, and of British institutions, an influential teacher, and a socially engaged intellectual. The author, in earlier work, showed that Chapter 22 of Catherine’s Nakaz was directly influenced by Desnitskii and, indirectly, by the Moscow University Law professor’s esteemed Glasgow teacher, Adam Smith. This new article draws…
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Politics of Perestroika
Archie Brown notes how the meaning of perestroika, a concept Gorbachev used well before he became Soviet leader, changed over time. The focus is on Gorbachev as a politician operating in the Soviet domestic context. Contrary to widespread retrospective belief, the USSR was not in crisis when Gorbachev became general secretary, and he was not forced to embark on fundamental change. He began with the aim of achieving economic reform and some politi…
Evaluating the Demise of the Soviet Union
Editor's Introduction: The disintegration of the Soviet Union in late December 1991 was one of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. The Cold War had ended two years earlier, in 1989, with the collapse of East European Communism, but the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991 made clear that the Cold War was truly over and that a new phase of international politics had begun. To be sure, the advent of the post–Cold War era di…
Former diplomat can finally be less diplomatic
Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy, by Simon McDonald. Haus Publishing. 258 pp. £20 After a successful Foreign Office career lasting more than forty years, the final five of them as head of the diplomatic service as Permanent Under-Secretary (PUS), Simon (now Lord) McDonald has produced a mixture of memoir and reflections on leadership. He is, happily for his readers, less than diplomatic in his assessments of some of the politicians, a…
What is wrong with government in the US , UK , France and Canada
A Diplomatic Meeting
For many readers, “summitry” will bring to mind only meetings between leaders of military superpowers, especially those of U.S. presidents with Soviet and Russian leaders. It is reasonable, however, to apply the term, as James Cooper does in this book, to meetings of heads of government, especially when they are leaders of consequence.There is no doubting the significance of the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Reagan him…
Before the Russian invasion
Steve Richards
Over‐rating Prime Ministers
The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval, by Garnett, Mark. Polity Press. 277 pp. £18.99 Mark Garnett has written a witty and highly readable book that should stimulate reassessment of the conventional wisdom on the role of Prime Ministers in British politics. The style is unusual for an author from a university department of politics, and all the livelier for that. Noting Dominic Cummings's desire to bring ‘weirdos and misfits with odd s…
The Russian intelligentsia
Leadership
Adam Smith's Psychological and Political Insight
Much of what Adam Smith had to say about politics appears in The Wealth of Nations and Lectures on Jurisprudence. However, the psychological and political insights to be found in the first of Smith's two great books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, remain highly relevant today. The pursuit of wealth and power, he argues, is driven not so much by the wish for possessions or authority as by the desire to be observed and admired. The great mass of p…
The New Russia
First published in Russian under the title ‘After the Kremlin’, Mikhail Gorbachev’s latest book provides an illuminating commentary on Russia’s internal developments during the quarter of a century since Gorbachev left office when the Soviet state ceased to exist. It also contains his reflections on Russia’s relations with the rest of the world. The book, which is handsomely produced and generously illustrated, comes with an encomium from former …
Brave Gorby, Bold Ron, Timid Bush (the Elder) and the end of the Cold War
Political Leadership and Political Power
According to the author of the article, the personalisation of politics by the mass media, and an increased focus on the leaders of the major parties in parliamentary democracies, especially on whoever is prime minister, leads to an exaggeration of the contribution of the top leader to the policy process and to unrealistic expectations of the role this leader can play across the entire policy spectrum. It is also linked to a naive and unsubstanti…
Rifkind's memoirs
Against the Führerprinzip
The Führerprinzip has not been confined to Nazi Germany. The cult of the strong leader thrives in many authoritarian regimes and has its echoes even in contemporary democracies. The belief that the more power a president or prime minister wields the more we should be impressed by that politician is a dangerous fallacy. In authoritarian regimes, a more collective leadership is a lesser evil than personal dictatorship. In countries moving from auth…
Questioning the mythology of the strong leader
The cult of the strong leader is dangerous not only in dictatorships but also in democracies. Political commentators too readily equate ‘strong’ with successful leadership. Yet, the idea that one person is entitled to take all the big decisions is antithetical to good governance and at odds with democratic values. In the British case, contemporary obsession with the one person at the top of the political hierarchy has led to anachronistic attribu…
The End of the Soviet Union
This essay reviews a recent book by Serhii Plokhii, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the role of the USSR's union-republics, especially Russia and Ukraine, in the breakup of the country, the book explains why efforts to hold the Soviet Union together ultimately proved abortive. The book, like earlier literature, debunks tenacious myths about the dissolution of the Soviet Union—myths that have been discredited befor…
Alfred Stepan and the Study of Comparative Politics
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Did Gorbachev as General Secretary Become a Social Democrat
As General Secretary, Gorbachev evolved from a Communist reformer to a socialist of the social democratic type. The most important programmatic documents of the CPSU in 1990–1991, on which Gorbachev had the predominant influence, were essentially social democratic. (Many in the Party apparatus had no intention of implementing them.) From 1988, Gorbachev was advocating fundamental change of the Soviet system, although there were zig-zags in his pu…
Leon Aron. Roads to the Temple
Vladimir Putin and the Reaffirmation of Central State Power
Political Science in the USSR
This article presents an overview of the development of political science as a discipline in the Soviet Union over the last 20 years. Such an overall perspective is not easily accessible to political scientists who do not read Russian because only a small percentage of the work appears in translation. Furthermore, many scholars believe that restrictions on publication in the USSR make Soviet academic writing unworthy of perusal—a view I strongly …
The October Crisis of 1993
An eminent British specialist on Russian politics analyzes the conflict between Boris Yel'tsin and his opponents that resulted in the bloody military showdown of October 3-4, 1993. Based upon materials gathered in Moscow during the events and on the author's personal observations and interviews, the article traces the origins and course of the wider conflict. It also interprets the implications of Yel'tsin's actions for the further development of…
Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism
This paper examines the variety of transnational influences that profoundly shaped and made possible the transition from Communism in Europe. Attention is devoted to: Western influences on Eastern Europe; the impact of the West on Soviet decisionmakers; the influence of East European countries on each other; and the significance of transformative change in the Soviet Union for the East European transitions. The author argues that the interconnect…
Asymmetrical Devolution
The Influence of East Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Against the Führerprinzip
The Führerprinzip has not been confined to Nazi Germany. The cult of the strong leader thrives in many authoritarian regimes and has its echoes even in contemporary democracies. The belief that the more power a president or prime minister wields the more we should be impressed by that politician is a dangerous fallacy. In authoritarian regimes, a more collective leadership is a lesser evil than personal dictatorship. In countries moving from auth…
Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup
While the questions posed by the Journal of Democracy are concerned mainly with the post-Soviet period, it is important to note at the outset that the most significant and, in many respects, most successful part of Russia's political transformation--namely, the transition from communism--took place while the Soviet Union was still in existence. Far too often, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the transformation of the communist system are confl…
The Russian Crisis
A distinguished British specialist on Soviet and Russian politics analyzes failures in Yeltsin's Russia and the reasons many observers have failed to understand or anticipate them. The article analyses Westerners' use of the term, “reform,” and the impact of economic ideologies on perceptions. A discussion of the role of the state cites both Western and Russian political scientists and economists. The article ends with possible scenarios for the …
Political science in the Soviet union
Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States
Reading Russia
Reading RussiaForms Without Substance Archie Brown (bio) Twenty years ago, there was a more thoroughgoing political pluralism in Russia than there is today. Contested elections took place for a new legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. Along with its inner body, a radically reformed Supreme Soviet, it wielded real power, as Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov discovered when in June 1989 the legislature rejected no fewer than nin…
Russia and Democratization
Russian democracy needs party consolidation and realignment, constitutional change, and an elected president who will give priority to political and legal institution-building and the rule of law
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
This encyclopedia explores all aspects of Russia and the former Soviet Union, past and present. It emphasizes contemporary issues, with analysis of the era of glasnost, the 1991 coup attempt, and the problems now facing Russian history and culture
Questioning the mythology of the strong leader
The cult of the strong leader is dangerous not only in dictatorships but also in democracies. Political commentators too readily equate ‘strong’ with successful leadership. Yet, the idea that one person is entitled to take all the big decisions is antithetical to good governance and at odds with democratic values. In the British case, contemporary obsession with the one person at the top of the political hierarchy has led to anachronistic attribu…
Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
The author argues, on the basis of a close examination of archival sources (including Politburo minutes) and the numerous memoirs of leading Soviet political actors, that an interdependent mixture of new leadership, new ideas, and long-standing institutional power in the Soviet Union was primarily responsible for the Cold War ending when it did. While acknowledging that the ‘Reagan factor’ was important in some ways, he rejects the view that the …
The Soviet Union since the Fall of Khrushchev
Did Gorbachev as General Secretary Become a Social Democrat
As General Secretary, Gorbachev evolved from a Communist reformer to a socialist of the social democratic type. The most important programmatic documents of the CPSU in 1990–1991, on which Gorbachev had the predominant influence, were essentially social democratic. (Many in the Party apparatus had no intention of implementing them.) From 1988, Gorbachev was advocating fundamental change of the Soviet system, although there were zig-zags in his pu…
The Soviet Union
Archie Brown emphasizes the need to make a clear distinction between the transformation of the Soviet system and the end of the Soviet state and also holds that "reform" of the system does not do justice to the extent of the change in the polity. In contradistinction to Cohen, he argues that to regard the pre-perestroika system as "communist" rather than "socialist" brings out more clearly the extent of the transformation, whereby a communist sys…
Alec Nove, 1915–1994
(1997). Alec Nove, 1915–1994: An appreciation. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 487-497
Change in the Soviet Union
Leadership
Short reviews
Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p. Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p. Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN S…
The Most Important Art
Journal Article The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945 Get access The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. By Mira Liehm and Antonin J. Liehm. Berkeley, London: University of California Press. 1977. 467 pp. £15.00. Archie Brown Archie Brown 1St. Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 146–147,…
Note on Males' and Females' Preferences for Opposite-Sex Body Parts, Bust Sizes, and Bust-Revealing Clothing
In Study 1, 55 young women responded that they preferred men with hairy chests and circumcised penises. The chest was the male body part reported to be most “sexually stimulating” to females. The busts were the female body part most “sexually stimulating” to males ( n = 34). In Study 2, men ( n = 35) preferred larger busts than women typically possess on the average, but the women ( n = 48) tended to overestimate the bust size most preferred by m…
The Soviet Union since the Fall of Khrushchev
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
The Influence of East Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR
Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States
Current Research in Comparative Communism
Journal Article Current Research in Comparative Communism: An Analysis and Bibliographic Guide to the Soviet System Get access Current Research in Comparative Communism: An Analysis and Bibliographic Guide to the Soviet System. By Lawrence L. Whetten. New York: Praeger. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Martin Robertson, London.) 159 pp. £11.55. Archie Brown Archie Brown 1St. Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Politics in Hungary
Journal Article Politics in Hungary Get access Politics in Hungary. By Peter A. Toma and Ivan Volgyes. San Francisco, Reading: Freeman. 1977. 188 pp. £9.60. Archie Brown Archie Brown St. Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, October 1978, Pages 691–692, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617357 Published: 01 October 1978
The Soviet Union since the Fall of Khrushchev
The Most Important Art
Journal Article The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945 Get access The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. By Mira Liehm and Antonin J. Liehm. Berkeley, London: University of California Press. 1977. 467 pp. £15.00. Archie Brown Archie Brown 1St. Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 1979, Pages 146–147,…
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Short reviews
Hasia R. Diner. IN THE ALMOST PROMISED LAND, AMERICAN JEWS AND BLACKS, 1915–1935, Westport, Connecticut and London, England. Greenwood Press, Contributions in American History, Number 59, 1977. 271 pp. n.p. Astri Suhrke and Lela Gamer Noble (eds) ETHNIC CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (Praeger Special Studies in Politics and Government), Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1977, 248 pp., n.p. Laurence D. Loeb, OUTCASTE: JEWISH LIFE IN S…
Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR
Soviet Policy for the 1980s
Political Culture and Communist Studies
Political science in the Soviet union
Short reviews
Reynolds Farley, BLACKS AND WHITES: NARROWING THE GAP? Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1984, xii + 235 pp., £18.00; $24.75. Alphonso Pinkney, THE MYTH OF BLACK PROGRESS, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, x + 198 pp., £15.00. Walker Connor, THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN MARXIST‐LENINIST THEORY AND STRATEGY, Princeton University Press, 1984. xvii + 614 pp, £47.00/$47.50 (h.b); £11.20; $14.50 (p.b.). Ira Katznelson, CITY TRENCHES: …
Change in the Soviet Union
Political Science in the USSR
This article presents an overview of the development of political science as a discipline in the Soviet Union over the last 20 years. Such an overall perspective is not easily accessible to political scientists who do not read Russian because only a small percentage of the work appears in translation. Furthermore, many scholars believe that restrictions on publication in the USSR make Soviet academic writing unworthy of perusal—a view I strongly …
Gorbachev and Reform of the Soviet System
Political Culture and Communist Studies
Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
The Soviet political executive, 1917-1986, T.H.Rigby putting clients in place - the role of patronage in co-optation into the Soviet leadership, John H.Miller political processes and generational change, Robert V.Daniels policy outside and politics inside, Marie Mendras power and policy in a time of leadership transition (January 1982-February 1988), Archie Brown
Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
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