Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy - Power Sharing, Regionalism, and Authoritarianism

Informationen zum Autor Nataliya Kibita is as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Research Affiliate in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has previously taught at LSE and Harvard, and she is the author of Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform. Klappentext Draws on unused archival material to demonstrate that weak central authority and pronounced regionalism was Ukraine's Soviet legacy, and that the established power of these regional clans made (post-Soviet) Ukrainian politics resistant to Russian?style authoritarianism, even when the Soviet centralised party-state system collapsed. Zusammenfassung Draws on unused archival material to demonstrate that weak central authority and pronounced regionalism was Ukraine's Soviet legacy, and that the established power of these regional clans made (post-Soviet) Ukrainian politics resistant to Russian?style authoritarianism, even when the Soviet centralised party-state system collapsed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Maps and tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Centralised administration in Ukraine for Ukraine 2: New system 3: Industrialisation and collectivisation: No place for the Ukrainian government 4: Ukrainian leadership and the regions during the decentralisation reforms 5: Economic recentralisation and the Ukrainian leadership 6: Shcherbytsky's leadership: Playing by the rules 7: The choice not made 8: The more we centralise the less order there is in the state

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• Authors: Nataliya Kibita, Nataliya (Researcher Kibita, Kibita Nataliya
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2024
• EAN: 9780192898814
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289881-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Ukraine, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political structures: democracy, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine