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Religion and Identity in Modern Russia - The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Paperback): Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest,... Religion and Identity in Modern Russia - The Revival of Orthodoxy and Islam (Paperback)
Marietta Stepaniants, Benjamin Forest, Juliet Johnson
R1,598 Discovery Miles 15 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on the roles of Russian Orthodoxy and Islam in constituting, challenging and changing national and ethnic identities in Russia, this study takes Tsarist and Soviet legacies into account, paying special attention to the evolution of the relationship between religious teachings and political institutions through the late 19th and 20th centuries. The volume explicitly discusses and compares the role of Russia's two major religions, Orthodoxy and Islam, in forging identity in the modern era and brings an innovative blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. This comprehensive volume is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.

Developments in Russian Politics 10 (10th edition): Henry E. Hale, Juliet Johnson, Tomila Lankina Developments in Russian Politics 10 (10th edition)
Henry E. Hale, Juliet Johnson, Tomila Lankina
R1,026 Discovery Miles 10 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The 10th edition of this go-to-text offers critical discussion of contemporary Russian politics and its fundamental principles. It covers established topics such as executive leadership, parties and elections, and also newer issues of national identity, protest, and Russia and Greater Eurasia. Taking a bottom-up approach, Developments in Russian Politics analyses the political system in which Putin’s influence can be understood and covers frequently overlooked topics like informal economy, climate change, and gender. The book is organised around the informal politics of hybrid regimes and authoritarianism and accounts for how Russian history impacts contemporary politics in counterintuitive ways, addressing notions of hybrid warfare, disinformation, and election meddling. The chapters have a modular quality, and are designed to correspond to course teaching. Compiled by an international team of specialists and offering key questions, further reading suggestions and a list of up-to-date repositories of video material, the edition will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students a from across the world. Key features - Offers critical discussion of contemporary issues in Russian politics - Written by an international team of leading experts - All chapters thoroughly revised for coverage of newer developments in national identity, protest, and Russia and Greater Eurasia

Priests of Prosperity - How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Paperback): Juliet Johnson Priests of Prosperity - How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Paperback)
Juliet Johnson
R797 R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Save R65 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson’s detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today’s central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.

Somebody's Always Hungry - Essays on Motherhood (Paperback): Juliet Johnson Somebody's Always Hungry - Essays on Motherhood (Paperback)
Juliet Johnson
R375 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R59 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS HUNGRY is a collection of essays about life raising kids from birth to age five years old. Not the orderly, glossy parenting magazine view, but the bumpy-road perspective: how life slams from sixty m.p.h. to zero in those five to six pushes during labor, and becomes the ride of your life for the next five years (and counting) bringing up those babies. Join the ride as two tiny people slowly dismantle one mom's illusions (and accomplishments) with tiny imperceptible fingers, building her an entirely new life she didnt know she needed, usually made out of Cool Whip. But its okay. Because her heart also goes from one-person-sized to big enough to save a nation.

Somebody's Always Hungry - Essays on Motherhood (Hardcover): Juliet Johnson Somebody's Always Hungry - Essays on Motherhood (Hardcover)
Juliet Johnson
R619 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R99 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS HUNGRY is a collection of essays about life raising kids from birth to age five years old. Not the orderly, glossy parenting magazine view, but the bumpy-road perspective: how life slams from sixty m.p.h. to zero in those five to six pushes during labor, and becomes the ride of your life for the next five years (and counting) bringing up those babies. Join the ride as two tiny people slowly dismantle one mom's illusions (and accomplishments) with tiny imperceptible fingers, building her an entirely new life she didnt know she needed, usually made out of Cool Whip. But its okay. Because her heart also goes from one-person-sized to big enough to save a nation.

Priests of Prosperity - How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Hardcover): Juliet Johnson Priests of Prosperity - How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World (Hardcover)
Juliet Johnson
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today's central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.

A Fistful of Rubles - The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Hardcover): Juliet Johnson A Fistful of Rubles - The Rise and Fall of the Russian Banking System (Hardcover)
Juliet Johnson
R1,853 Discovery Miles 18 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as engines of growth for a new capitalist economy. However, despite more than a decade of "reforms", Russia's financial system collapsed in 1998. Why had ambitious efforts to decentralize and liberalize the banking industry failed? In A Fistful of Rubles, Juliet Johnson offers the first comprehensive look at how Russia's banks, once expected to revitalize the nation's economy, instead became one of the largest obstacles to its recovery.

Drawing on interviews with Russian bankers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs, Johnson traces the evolution of the banking system from 1987 through the aftermath of the 1998 crash. She describes how dysfunctional institutional procedures left over from the Soviet period hindered the subsequent development of sound financial practices. Johnson argues that these legacies, along with misguided, Western-inspired liberalization policies, led to the creation of parasitic banks for which success depended on political connections rather than on investment strategies.

Johnson demonstrates that banking reform efforts ultimately did more harm than good, because Russian officials and their international advisors failed to build the corresponding economic, legal, and political institutions upon which modern market behavior depends.

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