Historical Legacies of Communism by Alexander Libman, Anastas... - 9781108820486

Cambridge University Press

Historical Legacies of CommunismModern Politics, Society, and Economic Development\nAuthor(s): Alexander Libman, Anastassia V. Obydenkova\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108820486, 978-1108820486\nSynopsis\nLibman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies ofthe Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post-Communist regions in the 21stCentury. The authors show how this impact is not driven by Communist ideology but by the clientelistic practices, opportunism and cynicism prevalent in the CPSU. Their study is built on a novel dataset of the CPSU membership rates in Russian regions in the 1950s-1980s, alongside case studies, interviews and an analysis of mass media previously only available in Russian and discussed here in English for the first time. It will appeal to students and scholars of Russian and Eastern European pol.