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Proceedings of the 11th International Seminar held in Sukhumi (Abkhazian Autonomous Republic) USSR, Sept., 1987. Ideas and methods used in stability theory of stochastic models. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resrouce exploitation, habitat protection, and development were sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre-revolutionary he...
Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.
This volume of essays and other materials offers an assessment of the short prose, verse and drama of Daniil Kharms, Leningrad absurdist of the 1920s and 1930s, who was one of the last representatives of the Russian literary avante-garde.
A reference work in two volumes which provides statistical information on over 2000 leading personalities in the political, military and administrative hierarchy of the Soviet Union. Volume one offers a chronological list of officials and volume two gives biographical details.