Approaches to Russia - 1.W. H. Chamberlin: The Russian Enigma: (New York: Charles Scribner's. Pp. viii, 321. $2.75). - 2.H. Iswolsky: Soul of Russia. (New York: Sheed & Ward. Pp. x, 200. $2.75). - 3.Pitirim A. Sorokin: Russia and the United States. (New York: E. P. Dulton and Co. Pp. 252. $3.00). - 4.B. H. Sumner: A Short History of Russia. (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock. Pp. 469. $3.75). - 5.Foster Rhea Dulles: The Road to Teheran. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Pp. vi. 279. $2.50). - 6.David J. Dallin: Russia and Postwar Europe. (New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. x, 230. $2.00). - 7.D. Fedotoff White: The Growth of the Red Army. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Pp. xiv, 486. $3.75). - 8.Walter Duranty: USSSR. The Story of Soviet Russia. (Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1944. Pp. 293. $3.00).

1944 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-253
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gurian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
The Road ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Postwar Europe ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Russia

Democracy: Trap, Tragedy or Crisis?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
Christopher Hobson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Yale University ◽  
World War ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
History Of

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the confidence once surrounding liberal democracy has been replaced with increasing concerns over its health. Reflecting this change of mood, there has been a proliferation of books examining whether democracy may be in crisis. This review surveys some of these recent contributions, which are united by a much more pessimistic tone. As these books detail, democracy now confronts major problems in essentially every sphere, with changes in the economic realm arguably being the most consequential. Rather than theorising more expansive forms of democracy, the challenge increasingly seems to be one of holding onto what we already have. Brown W (2015) Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone books. Coggan P (2013) The Last Vote: The Threats to Western Democracy. London: Allen Lane. Dunn J (2013) Breaking Democracy’s Spell. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Johnston S (2015) American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kurlantzick J (2013) Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Mair P (2013) Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. London: Verso. Runciman D (2013) The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Book Reviews

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-145
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
German History ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

Jay Lockenour, Soldiers as Citizens: Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955 (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London, 2001)Review by Omer BartovVolker R. Berghahn, America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepherd Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001)Review by Robert Gerald LivingstonGeoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002)Review by Paul LernerTanja A. Börzel, States and Regions in the European Union: Institutional Adaptation in Germany and Spain (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)Review by Richard HaeslyChristoph Kleßmann, ed., The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History (Oxford: Berg, 2001)Review by Andrew H. BeattieWilfried Schubarth and Richard Stöss, eds., Rechtsextremismus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Bilanz (Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2001)Review by Lars RensmannErik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky, Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001)Review by Pamela Potter

Wagner as a Problem

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-130
Author(s):  
Mitchell Cohen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Tristan Und Isolde ◽  
Romantic Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ring Des Nibelungen

Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner, at the Teatro delle Opera di Roma (April 1997).Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, at the Metropolitan Opera (New York, April-May 1997).Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, at the Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, July-August 1995).Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner, at the Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, July 1995).Barry Millington, “Nuremberg Trial: Is there Anti-Semitism in DieMeistersinger?” Cambridge Opera Journal 3 (3 November 1991), pp. 247-260.Cecelia Hopkins Porter, The Rhine as a Musical Metaphor: Cultural Identity in German Romantic Music (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996).Frederic Spotts, Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994).Michael Tanner, Wagner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996). Marc A. Weiner, Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).

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