Autocracy Modernization And Revolution In Russia And Iran
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Autocracy Modernization And Revolution In Russia And Iran
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Author : Tim McDaniel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Autocracy Modernization And Revolution In Russia And Iran written by Tim McDaniel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with History categories.
What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a significant degree on traditional groups like the bazaaris, small craftsmen, and religious students and preachers? Identifying a distinctive route to modernity--autocratic modernization--Tim McDaniel explores the dilemmas inherent in the efforts of autocratic monarchies in Russia and Iran to transform their countries into modern industrial societies. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Agony Of The Russian Idea
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Author : Tim McDaniel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-13
The Agony Of The Russian Idea written by Tim McDaniel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-13 with History categories.
Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil. This dramatic break with the Soviet past has left Russia politically fragmented and riddled with corruption, its people with little hope for the future. In a fascinating account for anyone interested in Russia's current political struggles, Tim McDaniel explores the inability of all its leaders over the last two centuries--tsars and Communist rulers alike--to create the foundations of a viable modern society. The problem then and now, he argues, is rooted in a cultural trap endemic to Russian society and linked to a unique sense of destiny embodied by the "Russian idea." In its most basic sense, the Russian idea is the belief that Russia can forge a path in the modern world that sets itself apart from the West through adherence to shared beliefs, community, and equality. These cultural values, according to McDaniel, have mainly reversed the values of Western society rather than having provided a real alternative to them. By relying on the Russian idea in their programs of change, dictatorial governments almost unavoidably precipitated social breakdown. When the Yeltsin government declared war on the Communist past, it broke with deeply held Russian values and traditions. McDaniel shows that in cutting people off from their pasts and promoting the West as the sole model of modernity, the reformers have simultaneously undermined the foundations of Russian morality and the people's sense of a future. Unwittingly, the Yeltsin government has thereby annihilated its own authority. McDaniel lived in Russia for three years during both the Communist and post-Communist periods. Basing his analysis on broad historical research, extensive travels, countless interviews and conversations, and friendships with Russians from all walks of life, McDaniel emphasizes the perils of assuming that Russians understand the world in the same way that we do, and so can and should become like us. Challenging and provocative in its claims, this book is intended for anyone seeking to understand Russia's attempts to create a new society.
Revolution And Reform In Russia And Iran
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Author : Ghoncheh Tazmini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Revolution And Reform In Russia And Iran written by Ghoncheh Tazmini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Iran categories.
1. Revolution and modernisation : the theoretical context -- 2. Historical patterns of modernisation from above -- 3. Modernising Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran -- 4. Preserving the Russian autocrat and the Iranian despot -- 5. The revolutionary movement and moment -- 6. Post-revolutionary modernisation : alternative modernities -- 7. Transcending the modernisation dilemma -- 8. Conclusion.
Comparative Political Systems
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Author : Charles F. Andrain
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 1994
Comparative Political Systems written by Charles F. Andrain and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Political Science categories.
This book focuses on the economic changes produced by different political systems and on the social impact of regime transformations. It addresses several key policy issues: How does the policy process operate in various types of political systems? What impact do public policies and policy outcomes wield on transformations in a political system? How does public policy preference in different political systems affect democracy, capitalism, and socialism?
Revolution And Reform In Russia And Iran
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Author : Ghoncheh Tazmini
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-03-30
Revolution And Reform In Russia And Iran written by Ghoncheh Tazmini and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with Political Science categories.
The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age. Here, Ghoncheh Tazmini provides an unprecedented comparative study of these two major revolutions of the twentieth century, which although removed from each other both spatially and temporally, have striking similarities. Examining the roots, events and impact of these two defining upheavals, Tazmini analyses how they resemble each other, stressing the continuity of the dilemma of modernisation for the Romanov, Pahlavi, Communist and Islamist rulers alike. This book is a significant contribution to both historical and contemporary debates concerning Russian and Iranian politics, and to the discourse on the origins and consequences of modernisation and revolution themselves.
Debating Revolutions
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Author : Nikki R. Keddie
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1995
Debating Revolutions written by Nikki R. Keddie and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Brings together contemporary essays from the journal Contention, on the causes and prediction of revolutions. Contributors discuss the Iranian, Eastern European, and French revolutions, and the theoretical and comparative aspects of revolutionary study, and respond to each other's views in debate style. Topics include the social interpretation of the French Revolution, demographic cycles and structural analysis in the world system, and global implications of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Iranian Russian Encounters
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Author : Stephanie Cronin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Iranian Russian Encounters written by Stephanie Cronin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This collection will explore the myriad encounters which have taken place between Iranians and Russian in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include some discussion of diplomacy and foreign policy but a central objective of the collection will be to widen the scholarly perspective to incorporate an understanding of other types of encounter, whether political, economic, social, cultural, or intellectual, and both friendly and hostile, especially as these developed beyond the official and elite levels. In particular it will attempt to understand the complexities of the impact on Iran of the Russian presence on its northern borders: the very expansion of Tsarist empire during the nineteenth century threatening Iran's independence yet bringing ideas of social-democracy to its doorstep, the Soviet Union in the twentieth century similarly contradictory in its effect, sustaining radical Iranian politics while advancing its own strategic interests.
Iran And Russian Imperialism
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Author : Moritz Deutschmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Iran And Russian Imperialism written by Moritz Deutschmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with History categories.
Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran over the course of this century, Russian influence was often challenged by banditry on the roads, riots in the cities, and the seeming arbitrariness of the Shah. Iran and Russian Imperialism develops a comprehensive picture of Russia’s historical entanglements with one of its most important neighbours in Asia. It recounts how the Russian Empire strived to gain political influence at the Persian court, promote Russian trade, and secure the enormous southern borders of the empire. Using hitherto often neglected documents from archives in Russia and Georgia and reading them against the grain, this book reveals the complex reactions of different groups in Iranian society to Russian imperialism. As it turns out, the Iranians were, in the words of the Russian orientalist Konstantin Smirnov, "ideal anarchists," whose resistance to imperial domination, as well as to centralized state institutions more generally, impacted developments in the region in the century to come. Iran’s troubled relationship with the wider world continues to be a topic of considerable interest to historians, yet little focus has been given to Russia’s historical connections to Iran. This book thus represents a valuable contribution to Iranian and Russian History, as well as International Relations.
Iran S Political Economy Since The Revolution
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Author : Suzanne Maloney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Iran S Political Economy Since The Revolution written by Suzanne Maloney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with History categories.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Iran's political economy since the 1979 revolution and examines the country's energy sector.
Democracy In Iran
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Author : Ali Gheissari
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-07
Democracy In Iran written by Ali Gheissari and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with History categories.
Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis ofEvil," and rails against the country's authoritarian leadership. Yet as Bush trumpets the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East, few note that Iran has one of the longest-running experiences with democracy in the region. In this book, Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr look at the political history of Iran in the modern era, and offer an in-depth analysis of the prospects for democracy to flourish there. After having produced the only successful Islamist challenge to the state, a revolution, and an Islamic Republic, Iranis now poised to produce a genuine and indigenous democratic movement in the Muslim world. Democracy in Iran is neither a sudden development nor a western import, Gheissari and Nasr argue. The concept of democracy in Iran today may appear to be a reaction to authoritarianism, but it is an old ideawith a complex history, one that is tightly interwoven with the main forces that have shaped Iranian society and politics, institutions, identities, and interests. Indeed, the demand for democracy first surfaced in Iran a century ago at the end of the Qajar period, and helped produce Iran'ssurprisingly liberal first constitution in 1906. Gheissari and Nasr seek to understand why democracy failed to grow roots and lost ground to an autocratic Iranian state. Why was democracy absent from the ideological debates of the 1960s and 1970s? Most important, why has it now become a powerfulsocial, political, and intellectual force? How have modernization, social change, economic growth, and the experience of the revolution converged to make this possible?Gheissari and Nasr trace the fortunes of the democratic ideal from the inchoate demands for rule of law and constitutionalism of a century ago to today's calls for individual rights and civil liberties. In the process they provide not just a fresh look at Iran's politics but also a new understandingof the way in which democracy can develop in a Muslim country.