Bøger af Vera Tolz

A study of unofficial movements in the USSR and their effect on the Soviet political system. Since 1987 the role of these groups has been expanding, starting to pose a threat to the power of the Communist party, and causing a multiparty system to emerge in the Soviet Union.

This extensive analysis of Russian national identity spans three centuries of Russian cultural history to place post-communist Russia within a broad historical background. Combining a rich historical study with a rigorous analytical framework, the book is an essential tool for understanding contemporary Russia.

An examination of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences which focuses on the reactions of individual members of the academy to the new situation in which they found themselves after October 1917.