“…2. On the author, see Himmelstrand (2000aHimmelstrand ( , 2000b; the epithet 'the woman who invented perestroika' was coined by H. Perkin (1996: 24, 128, 134).…”
keywords: human potential ✦ social institutions ✦ social mechanisms of transformation ✦ sociocultural structure and actors ✦ sociology in Russia In 1993, Tatiana Zaslavskaia, together with Professor Theodor Shanin from the University of Manchester, started an annual international symposium in Russia under the title 'Where is Russia Going?'. In the middle of January each year, more than 100 Russian social scientists from different disciplines, universities and other academic institutions, gather for three days to discuss the most acute problems of transformation that the country is facing. The participants differ demographically in age and gender, as well as politically in their world outlook and appreciation of past and post-Soviet Russian development. Until 2003, Tatiana Zaslavskaia was the acting chair and the editor of the collections of papers that followed each discussion. In the book reviewed here, she uses this decade of discussions as the starting point for elaborating the theory of the transformation of Russian society. In 1983, she became widely known as the author of 'Novosibirsk Manifesto' -the paper that might be considered as the theoretical foundation for perestroika.Tatiana Zaslavskaia starts her book by characterizing five positions that were presented in the course of discussions regarding the reformation of Russia:
“…2. On the author, see Himmelstrand (2000aHimmelstrand ( , 2000b; the epithet 'the woman who invented perestroika' was coined by H. Perkin (1996: 24, 128, 134).…”
keywords: human potential ✦ social institutions ✦ social mechanisms of transformation ✦ sociocultural structure and actors ✦ sociology in Russia In 1993, Tatiana Zaslavskaia, together with Professor Theodor Shanin from the University of Manchester, started an annual international symposium in Russia under the title 'Where is Russia Going?'. In the middle of January each year, more than 100 Russian social scientists from different disciplines, universities and other academic institutions, gather for three days to discuss the most acute problems of transformation that the country is facing. The participants differ demographically in age and gender, as well as politically in their world outlook and appreciation of past and post-Soviet Russian development. Until 2003, Tatiana Zaslavskaia was the acting chair and the editor of the collections of papers that followed each discussion. In the book reviewed here, she uses this decade of discussions as the starting point for elaborating the theory of the transformation of Russian society. In 1983, she became widely known as the author of 'Novosibirsk Manifesto' -the paper that might be considered as the theoretical foundation for perestroika.Tatiana Zaslavskaia starts her book by characterizing five positions that were presented in the course of discussions regarding the reformation of Russia:
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