War and the Soviet Union: Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Soviet Military and Political Thinking.

This book is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. The book argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. It shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings. The book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

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The Carter Administration and the Evolution of American Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1977–1981

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1353/jph.2002.0019 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 261-292 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

J. Michael Martinez

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Nuclear Weapons ◽

Nuclear Nonproliferation ◽

Nuclear Testing ◽

Energy Agency ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Subsequent Response ◽

The World ◽

Uncertain Time ◽

First Time

In the wake of India's May 1998 decision to resume nuclear testing for the first time since 1974, as well as arch-rival Pakistan's subsequent response, the attention of the world again has focused on nuclear nonproliferation policy as a means of maintaining stability in politically troubled regions of the world. The 1990s proved to be an uncertain time for nonproliferation policy. Pakistan acquired nuclear capabilities. Iraq displayed its well-known intransigence by refusing to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arms inspectors access to facilities suspected of manufacturing nuclear weapons. North Korea maintained a nuclear weapons program despite opposition from many Western nations. Troubling questions about nuclear holdings persisted in Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa. New nuclear powers were created in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Even the renewal of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1995 failed to assuage the concerns of Western powers fearful of aggressive measures undertaken by rogue nuclear proliferants.

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Ethnicity and Anthropology in the Soviet Union

European Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1017/s0003975600003209 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 201-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ernest Gellner

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Anthropology ◽

The West ◽

Academic World ◽

Soviet Academy ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

A Minor ◽

Interaction History ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

The Revolution

InThePastDecade, a minor revolution has taken place within Soviet Anthropology. ‘Ethnography’ is one of the recognised disciplines in the Soviet academic world, and corresponds roughly to what in the West is called social anthropology. This revolution has as yet been barely noticed by outside observers (1). Its leader is Yulian Bromley, a very Russian scholar with a very English surname, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The revolution consists of making ethnography into the studies of ethnos-es, or, in current Western academic jargon, into the study of ethnicity—in other words the study of the phenomena of national feeling, identity, and interaction. History is about chaps, geography is about maps, and ethnography is about ethnoses. What else ? The revolution is supported by arguments weightier than mere verbal suggestiveness; but by way of persuasive consideration, etymology is also invoked.

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