book chapter
The verse and prose of post-totalitarianism: (the ex-Soviet Union in 1992-1994)
After the USSR: ethnicity, nationalism, and politics in the commonwealth of independent states • Madison, Wis. • Published In 1995 • Pages: 54-95
By: Khazanov, Anatoly M. (Anatoly Michailovich).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study contends that the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union did not bring about meaningful political and economic transformations in Russia. Instead, the net effect of all the sweeping changes that occurred starting in the early 1990s was the rise of "a post-totalitarian society, which is neither totalitarian like its communist predecessor nor liberal democratic." The author attributes this unanticipated outcome to Russia’s authoritarian political culture that reinforced top-down power, including excessive and arbitrary state control over the economy. The union lacked a strong tradition of civil society or other mechanisms for guaranteeing rule of law and constitutionally enshrined human rights. (See Khazanov [1995 “References”] for bibliographic references.)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Ethnic stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Government institutions
- Political parties
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990, 1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1991-1995
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russia; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan (former Soviet Union)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Anatoly M. Khazanov
- for bibliograpical references, see document 104:Khazanov
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95005696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nationalism--Former Soviet republics