Bohdan Harasymiw
Biographic Data
| ID | 966748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bohdan Harasymiw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bohdan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harasymiw |
| SIGNATURE | HARASYMIW B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Memories of a onetime Sovietologist
This memoir briefly relates the writer's experience as a Sovietologist and member of the Canadian Association of Slavists. It includes his interactions with some of the founders of both Slavic Studies in Canada as well as of the CAS itself. Several notable and eccentric personalities were encountered in the course of the author's career. Much has changed in the Association over the years, but its spirit of fellowship and genuine collegiality endu…
Civil society as an anti-corruption actor in post-Euromaidan Ukraine
Of the instruments available in the anti-corruption arsenal of nations, civil society usually plays an ambivalent role. It may or may not be decisive in helping to counter corruption, depending on other circumstances, although in developed societies with a strong tradition of rule of law it can make a definite contribution. In post-communist Ukraine, where political leadership for reasons of self-interest has been reluctant to pursue anti-corrupt…
Contributions by Canadian Social Scientists to the Study of Soviet Ukraine During the Cold War
This article surveys major publications concerning Ukraine by Canadian social scientists of the Cold War era. While the USSR existed, characterized by the uniformity of its political, economic, social, and cultural order, there was little incentive, apart from personal interest, for social scientists to specialize in their research on any of its component republics, including the Ukrainian SSR, and there was also no incentive to teach about them …
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States , Mikhail A. Alexseev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii, 286. As a political scientist, are you tiring of the rational choice approach? Is your research cramped by the requirements of political correctness? Are you fed up with the securitization of practically all forms of policy, including especially immigration? If so, then this is the book f…
Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine, 1994–2004
The paper attempts a comprehensive and theoretically grounded analysis of all parliamentary and presidential elections carried out in Ukraine in the decade 1994 to 2004. It is organized into four sections. The first deals with the electoral system, how it came into being and has been amended, how it translates votes into seats, the "effective number" of political parties in the electorate and the legislature, and the battle over the electoral sys…
Policing, Democratization and Political Leadership in Postcommunist Ukraine
Policing, a subject little studied by North American political scientists, has considerable relevance to newly democratizing countries, particularly those emerging from communist rule. Taking the case of Ukraine, the article examines what measures have been adopted to transform that country's Soviet pattern of authoritarian policing into something resembling that of established European liberal democracies. The balance sheet shows few signs of po…
Democracy after Communism
Contents: I. The Exit from Communism 1. How Different Are Postcommunist Transitions: Ghia Nodia 2. Comparing East and South: Valerie Bunce 3. The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites: John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulsk i4. Civil Society after Communism: Aleksander Smolar 5. Understanding Postcommunist Transitions: Leszek Balcerowicz 6. Estonia's Success Story: Mart Laar 7. The Postcommunist Wars: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. II. The East E…
New Trends in Canadian Federalism
Introduction, Fran ois Rocher and Miriam Smith Part One: Constitutional Developments and Canadian Political Identity Chapter 1: The Four Dimensions of Canadian Federalism, Fran ois Rocher and Miriam Smith Chapter 2: The Constitutional Debate and Beyond, Jennifer Smith Chapter 3: Executive Federalism: Beggar Thy Neighbour?, Kathy Brock Chapter 4: Conceiving Diversity: Dualism, Multiculturalism, and Multinationalism, Kenneth McRoberts Chapter 5: Th…
Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934
The Bolshevik responseViolent peasant and non-Russian resistance to Soviet power forced the Bolsheviks to recognize and to deal with the major social disparities within the largest country in the world.Although the tsarist political order collapsed in the spring of 1917, the social, economic and cultural legacy of the old order remained.Beginning in the sixteenth century, Russia annexed territories containing a wide variety of national and religi…
Cracks in the Monolith
Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
The New Soviet Elite
The Red Eminence
Economics
Ethnic Political Recruitment in the USSR
Recruitment into politics in industrial societies is determined to a large extent by an individual's (or a group's) social status. Usually status is indicated by education, occupational prestige, and income or wealth. The higher one's status, as measured by high ratings on one or more of these scales, the more likely is one to be drawn into a political role.1 In multiethnic societies, ethnicity may also be an indicator of social standing. In such…
The CPSU in Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
Leadership succession in the Soviet Union has always had some impact on the composition of the ruling Communist party, which is otherwise determined normally by the force of social status. As the CPSU constitutes the pool from which the Soviet political elite is drawn, changes in that pool brought about by the succession of Gorbachev are bound to have implications for the future. Apparently unable at the beginning of his term to stem the intake o…
Political Elite Recruitment in the Soviet Union
Briefly Noted
Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine
(1984). Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 2-3, pp. 160-181
News of the Profession
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Party Recruitment in Siberia
Siberia, apparently, is an inhospitable region as far as Communist Party members are concerned. According to T. H. Rigby, both in 1939 and in 1961, a significantly smaller proportion of the CPSU membership was to be found in the Urals and Western and Eastern Siberian regions of the RSFSR than of the general Soviet population. This is surprising, he points out, in view of the area's “relatively small rural population” and its key industries being …
Local Politics in Communist Countries
There are many reasons why it is important to study local politics -- political culture, government, political process -- in Communist party states. As in all politics, local politics in Communist party states are the political articulation of the local community. This is the political arena where policies concerning local issues are formulated by the officials. This is where the officials are approached by citizens with their particular demands.…
David Lane, Politics and Society in the USSR, New York
The Qualifications of Local Party and Government Leaders in the Soviet Union and the Development of Pluralism
Résumé/AbstractEst-ce vrai que dans l’union soviétique, sous l’influence de l’industrialisation, la nature des chefs politiques et du système de leur sélection est en train d’être transformée d’une forme totalitaire à l’une du pluralisme? En autres mots, d’après Frederic Fleron, si l’on accepte que I’URSS s’est changée de la monocratie, est-elle donc “adaptable-monocratique,” “cooptative,” ou bien “pluraliste”? Fleron lui-même a trouvé qu’il y a,…
Nomenklatura
Le rôle directeur du parti communiste, dans la société soviétique, est assuré par la liste qu'il établit des personnes qu'il estime éligibles aux postes de commande. Par ce système, connu sous le nom de “nomenklatura,” le parti nomme, à la tête de tous les secteurs de la vie publique, les individus qui ont sa confiance politique, généralement des communistes euxmêmes. Ainsi le contrôle des activités des organisnies publics se trouve réalisé par l…
Nomenklatura
Le rôle directeur du parti communiste, dans la société soviétique, est assuré par la liste qu'il établit des personnes qu'il estime éligibles aux postes de commande. Par ce système, connu sous le nom de “nomenklatura,” le parti nomme, à la tête de tous les secteurs de la vie publique, les individus qui ont sa confiance politique, généralement des communistes euxmêmes. Ainsi le contrôle des activités des organisnies publics se trouve réalisé par l…
Civil society as an anti-corruption actor in post-Euromaidan Ukraine
Of the instruments available in the anti-corruption arsenal of nations, civil society usually plays an ambivalent role. It may or may not be decisive in helping to counter corruption, depending on other circumstances, although in developed societies with a strong tradition of rule of law it can make a definite contribution. In post-communist Ukraine, where political leadership for reasons of self-interest has been reluctant to pursue anti-corrupt…
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States , Mikhail A. Alexseev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii, 286. As a political scientist, are you tiring of the rational choice approach? Is your research cramped by the requirements of political correctness? Are you fed up with the securitization of practically all forms of policy, including especially immigration? If so, then this is the book f…
Democracy after Communism
Contents: I. The Exit from Communism 1. How Different Are Postcommunist Transitions: Ghia Nodia 2. Comparing East and South: Valerie Bunce 3. The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites: John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulsk i4. Civil Society after Communism: Aleksander Smolar 5. Understanding Postcommunist Transitions: Leszek Balcerowicz 6. Estonia's Success Story: Mart Laar 7. The Postcommunist Wars: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. II. The East E…
The CPSU in Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
Leadership succession in the Soviet Union has always had some impact on the composition of the ruling Communist party, which is otherwise determined normally by the force of social status. As the CPSU constitutes the pool from which the Soviet political elite is drawn, changes in that pool brought about by the succession of Gorbachev are bound to have implications for the future. Apparently unable at the beginning of his term to stem the intake o…
Local Politics in Communist Countries
There are many reasons why it is important to study local politics -- political culture, government, political process -- in Communist party states. As in all politics, local politics in Communist party states are the political articulation of the local community. This is the political arena where policies concerning local issues are formulated by the officials. This is where the officials are approached by citizens with their particular demands.…
Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine, 1994–2004
The paper attempts a comprehensive and theoretically grounded analysis of all parliamentary and presidential elections carried out in Ukraine in the decade 1994 to 2004. It is organized into four sections. The first deals with the electoral system, how it came into being and has been amended, how it translates votes into seats, the "effective number" of political parties in the electorate and the legislature, and the battle over the electoral sys…
Policing, Democratization and Political Leadership in Postcommunist Ukraine
Policing, a subject little studied by North American political scientists, has considerable relevance to newly democratizing countries, particularly those emerging from communist rule. Taking the case of Ukraine, the article examines what measures have been adopted to transform that country's Soviet pattern of authoritarian policing into something resembling that of established European liberal democracies. The balance sheet shows few signs of po…
Ethnic Political Recruitment in the USSR
Recruitment into politics in industrial societies is determined to a large extent by an individual's (or a group's) social status. Usually status is indicated by education, occupational prestige, and income or wealth. The higher one's status, as measured by high ratings on one or more of these scales, the more likely is one to be drawn into a political role.1 In multiethnic societies, ethnicity may also be an indicator of social standing. In such…
Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine
(1984). Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 2-3, pp. 160-181
Nomenklatura
Le rôle directeur du parti communiste, dans la société soviétique, est assuré par la liste qu'il établit des personnes qu'il estime éligibles aux postes de commande. Par ce système, connu sous le nom de “nomenklatura,” le parti nomme, à la tête de tous les secteurs de la vie publique, les individus qui ont sa confiance politique, généralement des communistes euxmêmes. Ainsi le contrôle des activités des organisnies publics se trouve réalisé par l…
The Qualifications of Local Party and Government Leaders in the Soviet Union and the Development of Pluralism
Résumé/AbstractEst-ce vrai que dans l’union soviétique, sous l’influence de l’industrialisation, la nature des chefs politiques et du système de leur sélection est en train d’être transformée d’une forme totalitaire à l’une du pluralisme? En autres mots, d’après Frederic Fleron, si l’on accepte que I’URSS s’est changée de la monocratie, est-elle donc “adaptable-monocratique,” “cooptative,” ou bien “pluraliste”? Fleron lui-même a trouvé qu’il y a,…
David Lane, Politics and Society in the USSR, New York
Local Politics in Communist Countries
There are many reasons why it is important to study local politics -- political culture, government, political process -- in Communist party states. As in all politics, local politics in Communist party states are the political articulation of the local community. This is the political arena where policies concerning local issues are formulated by the officials. This is where the officials are approached by citizens with their particular demands.…
Party Recruitment in Siberia
Siberia, apparently, is an inhospitable region as far as Communist Party members are concerned. According to T. H. Rigby, both in 1939 and in 1961, a significantly smaller proportion of the CPSU membership was to be found in the Urals and Western and Eastern Siberian regions of the RSFSR than of the general Soviet population. This is surprising, he points out, in view of the area's “relatively small rural population” and its key industries being …
Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine
(1984). Political Mobility in Soviet Ukraine. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 2-3, pp. 160-181
News of the Profession
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Elite Recruitment in the Soviet Union
Briefly Noted
Economics
Ethnic Political Recruitment in the USSR
Recruitment into politics in industrial societies is determined to a large extent by an individual's (or a group's) social status. Usually status is indicated by education, occupational prestige, and income or wealth. The higher one's status, as measured by high ratings on one or more of these scales, the more likely is one to be drawn into a political role.1 In multiethnic societies, ethnicity may also be an indicator of social standing. In such…
The CPSU in Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
Leadership succession in the Soviet Union has always had some impact on the composition of the ruling Communist party, which is otherwise determined normally by the force of social status. As the CPSU constitutes the pool from which the Soviet political elite is drawn, changes in that pool brought about by the succession of Gorbachev are bound to have implications for the future. Apparently unable at the beginning of his term to stem the intake o…
The Red Eminence
The New Soviet Elite
Political Leadership in the Soviet Union
Cracks in the Monolith
Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934
The Bolshevik responseViolent peasant and non-Russian resistance to Soviet power forced the Bolsheviks to recognize and to deal with the major social disparities within the largest country in the world.Although the tsarist political order collapsed in the spring of 1917, the social, economic and cultural legacy of the old order remained.Beginning in the sixteenth century, Russia annexed territories containing a wide variety of national and religi…
New Trends in Canadian Federalism
Introduction, Fran ois Rocher and Miriam Smith Part One: Constitutional Developments and Canadian Political Identity Chapter 1: The Four Dimensions of Canadian Federalism, Fran ois Rocher and Miriam Smith Chapter 2: The Constitutional Debate and Beyond, Jennifer Smith Chapter 3: Executive Federalism: Beggar Thy Neighbour?, Kathy Brock Chapter 4: Conceiving Diversity: Dualism, Multiculturalism, and Multinationalism, Kenneth McRoberts Chapter 5: Th…
Policing, Democratization and Political Leadership in Postcommunist Ukraine
Policing, a subject little studied by North American political scientists, has considerable relevance to newly democratizing countries, particularly those emerging from communist rule. Taking the case of Ukraine, the article examines what measures have been adopted to transform that country's Soviet pattern of authoritarian policing into something resembling that of established European liberal democracies. The balance sheet shows few signs of po…
Democracy after Communism
Contents: I. The Exit from Communism 1. How Different Are Postcommunist Transitions: Ghia Nodia 2. Comparing East and South: Valerie Bunce 3. The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites: John Higley, Judith Kullberg, and Jan Pakulsk i4. Civil Society after Communism: Aleksander Smolar 5. Understanding Postcommunist Transitions: Leszek Balcerowicz 6. Estonia's Success Story: Mart Laar 7. The Postcommunist Wars: Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. II. The East E…
Elections in Post-Communist Ukraine, 1994–2004
The paper attempts a comprehensive and theoretically grounded analysis of all parliamentary and presidential elections carried out in Ukraine in the decade 1994 to 2004. It is organized into four sections. The first deals with the electoral system, how it came into being and has been amended, how it translates votes into seats, the "effective number" of political parties in the electorate and the legislature, and the battle over the electoral sys…
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the United States , Mikhail A. Alexseev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii, 286. As a political scientist, are you tiring of the rational choice approach? Is your research cramped by the requirements of political correctness? Are you fed up with the securitization of practically all forms of policy, including especially immigration? If so, then this is the book f…
Contributions by Canadian Social Scientists to the Study of Soviet Ukraine During the Cold War
This article surveys major publications concerning Ukraine by Canadian social scientists of the Cold War era. While the USSR existed, characterized by the uniformity of its political, economic, social, and cultural order, there was little incentive, apart from personal interest, for social scientists to specialize in their research on any of its component republics, including the Ukrainian SSR, and there was also no incentive to teach about them …
Civil society as an anti-corruption actor in post-Euromaidan Ukraine
Of the instruments available in the anti-corruption arsenal of nations, civil society usually plays an ambivalent role. It may or may not be decisive in helping to counter corruption, depending on other circumstances, although in developed societies with a strong tradition of rule of law it can make a definite contribution. In post-communist Ukraine, where political leadership for reasons of self-interest has been reluctant to pursue anti-corrupt…
Memories of a onetime Sovietologist
This memoir briefly relates the writer's experience as a Sovietologist and member of the Canadian Association of Slavists. It includes his interactions with some of the founders of both Slavic Studies in Canada as well as of the CAS itself. Several notable and eccentric personalities were encountered in the course of the author's career. Much has changed in the Association over the years, but its spirit of fellowship and genuine collegiality endu…
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Soviet and Russian History (10 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · Communism (6 works)