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Russia's Road to Democracy - Parliament, Communism and Traditional Culture (Hardcover)
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Russia's Road to Democracy - Parliament, Communism and Traditional Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies of Communism in Transition series
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Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound
up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia's
Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why
the Congress of People's Deputies, and the other newly elected
institutions founded under perestroika, not only failed to prevent,
but also seemed to speed up and provoke, the disintegration of the
Soviet Union. By studying the early history of the Congress, the
book seeks insights on the prospects for democracy in
Russia.Following an inquiry into the roots of Soviet political
culture and the implications for future representative
institutions, the book then examines the genesis of the Congress of
People's Deputies and attempts a hermeneutical reconstruction of
the deputies' models of social reality, as expressed in the texts
of their parliamentary debates. The authors argue that the adoption
of the concept of sobornost - a belief in society's organic unity -
as the basic model for this institution proved utterly inadequate
to the challenges the country faced. Including substantial new
source material which is being made available in English for the
first time, Russia's Road to Democracy presents an in-depth
analysis with conclusions that contradict the hitherto prevailing
theoretical assumptions.
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