Revolutionary Passage: From Soviet To Post-Soviet Russia

by Marc Garcelon

Overview

Revolutionary Passage is a cultural, social, and political history of Russia during its critical period of transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Marc Garcelon traces the history of perestroika and the rise of Vladimir Putin, arguing that the pressure Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms put on the Soviet system gave birth to movements for democratic change. He also shows that the very political arrangements that prompted the fall of Communism also killed hopes for subsequent reform.

At the turning point of this political revolution stood Democratic Russia, or DemRossiia, the principal organization of the Russian democratic movement that helped to dismantle the Soviet system and force the Soviet leadership to change course. However, as post-Soviet Russia committed itself to globalization and U.S.-style economic reforms, the country directed itself away from the Democratic reforms called for by organizations like DemRossiia, and such groups collapsed. Revolutionary Passage provides a close examination of the DemRossiia. Garcelon deftly illuminates the rise and decline of this organization, and how the processes of revolutionary change impacted both Russia and the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592133611
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	06/09/2005
Series:	Politics History & Social Chan
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Acronyms and Russian Terms	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction: Passages	1
1	The Specialist Rebellion in Moscow and the Genesis of a Revolutionary Situation	36
2	The Rise of Democratic Russia	77
3	Democrats on the Offensive	114
4	August 1991 and the Decline of Russia's Democratic Movement	156
5	Interregnum	194
Appendix	English Translation of Russian Questionnaire Used in the Survey in Chapter One	239
	Notes	243
	Bibliography	287
	Index	303