Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest - Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia

About the author

Kimberly Zisk

Summary

How do powerful people react to revolutionary circumstances? How quickly and effectively do elites adapt to, and shape, the structures of new social and political systems? Zisk offers an examination of the unexpected ways Russian defence industrialists have acted in the new market economy.

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Zisk, Kimberly Marten Zisk
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.1998
• EAN: 9780231110785
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11078-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Warfare and defence, Political science and theory, Manufacturing industries, Revolutionary groups and movements, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Armaments industries