Planning Reforms in the Soviet Union 1962–1966: An Analysis of Recent Trends in Economic Organization and Management and Preisentwicklung und Preispolitik im Sowjetischen Aussenhandel, 1955–1963

1969 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Alfred Zauberman
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Recent Trends

No longer from another planet

Antiquity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (206) ◽  
pp. 193-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Trigger
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Third World ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Third World

Over half of Leo Klejn's monograph-length article constitutes what might be described as an ethnography of Western archaeology; more particularly an armchair ethnography written from the perspective of Leningrad. Western archaeologists will inevitably react to it in much the same manner as native peoples react to ethnographic studies of their cultures. They may admire the industriousness and intelligence of the ethnographer and grudgingly admit that he perceived things about them of which they were unaware. Yet they remain convinced that in some significant way he failed to comprehend the inner spirit of their culture or to appreciate sufficiently its merits. At its healthiest, this feeling constitutes a challenge to understand one's own culture better. Klejn's monograph surveys developments in theory and method in archaeology between 1960 and 1973 in the Soviet Union, Central and Western Europe, and the United States. No attempt is made to consider trends in China, Latin America, or elsewhere in the Third World. Klejn's aims are three-fold : bibliographical, historical, and critical. Although he denies that his presentation is sufficiently detailed to constitute genuine scientific criticism, his evaluations of recent trends in the development of archaeological theory influence his historical interpretations and enhance the interest and value of the entire study.

IV. “Post-1985 Internal Migration: Spatial Patterns and Issues”

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-156
Author(s):  
Beth Mitchneck
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Recent Trends

The 1980s witnessed a reversal of internal migration patterns in the Soviet Union as factors associated with ethnicity became one of the predominant influences on the character and volume of population mobility. This is one of the recent trends in Soviet migration highlighted in the presentation by Dr. Beth Mitchneck, a post-doctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute. Dr. Mitchneck based her analysis on the censuses of 1959, 1970, 1979 and 1989, population registers and both Soviet and western estimates.

Rethinking the Budapest Memorandum from the Perspective of Ukrainian-Russian Relations in the Post-Soviet Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Alina Shymanska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was adopted in 1990 and declared Ukraine a non-nuclear state. However, Kyiv was not eager to surrender the nuclear arsenal that it had inherited from the Soviet Union. It is possible to divide Ukraine’s denuclearisation process into two different phases. The first phase consisted of bilateral discussions between Russia and Ukraine, which ended due to Russia’s inability to understand Ukraine’s security concerns. In 1993, the United States joined the discussion, and the trilateral phase began. The involvement of the United States helped to reach a consensus and promote nuclear non-proliferation in Ukraine by providing security assurance and some economic benefits. The case of Ukraine’s nuclear non-proliferation was supposed to be one of the most exemplary cases of denuclearisation in the last two decades. But in light of the Ukrainian crisis which started in 2014, the world recognizes that the security assurances provided in the Budapest Memorandum ultimately failed to deter Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Scott Sagan believes that the international norms and an image of ‘a good international citizen’ that can integrate into the Western economic and security system while maintaining good relations with Russia mattered the most in view of Ukraine's decision to give up nuclear weapons. This article suggests that the Ukrainian denuclearisation is the fusion of both the norms and domestic factors that Ukraine faced in 1990s. The article will review Ukraine’s decision to return the nuclear weapons, despite the ongoing Russian threat. It will also clarify Ukraine’s decision to not pursue nuclear proliferation, despite recent trends within Ukraine’s political circle that would be in support of this decision.

The American Connection: Ideology and the Transfer of American Technology to the Soviet Union, 1917–1941

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kendall E. Bailes
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Soviet Economy ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Stock Of Knowledge

When one nation looks to another as an example for social and economic change, as the Soviet Union did to certain aspects of American experience for a time after 1917, the results are likely to reveal much about the borrower nation—its dominant values as well as its economy and social structure. The role which foreign, and particularly American, technology and industrial expertise played in the Soviet economy during the interwar period is still inadequately understood and is a subject of some controversy, with implications not only for an understanding of Soviet history and society but for the study of international technology transfers. (The term technology will be used here not only in the sense of “machinery” and processes, but in the broader sense of Simon Kuznets's phrase, “stock of knowledge,” that is, the knowledge of techniques of production, including economic organization.) Such transfers, particularly those between economically advanced and less-developed countries, have played an important but as yet inadequately studied role in modern history.

Recent Trends in Preserved Natural Areas in the U.S.S.R.

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R. Pryde
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Large Expansion ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Creation

Large natural preserves, known as zapovedniki, represent the main territorial entities employed in biosphere preservation in the Soviet Union. In the past decade, a large expansion of the zapovedniki system has taken place, 35 new preserves totalling 4,477,000 ha having been created. In all, the system totalled (in 1976) 107 preserves covering about nine million hectares. The period since 1970 has also seen the creation of the U.S.S.R.'s first three national parks, one in each of the three Baltic republics.Both zapovedniki and national parks in the Soviet Union are still in the process of having uniform administrative policies formulated for their management, which represents a difficult task in view of the fact that they have traditionally been managed by a wide variety of concerned agencies.The zapovedniki network represents one of the great biosphere preservation systems of the world, and remaining problems associated with ecosystem management, tourism, economic uses, and administrative coordination, are being given thoughtful attention.

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