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At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective 2012th Edition
Author(s): C. Pursiainen
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 10 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 023036392X
- ISBN-13: 9780230363922
Book Description
This volume takes a comparative approach to understand general tendencies in post-Communist transition in Russia and China. Bringing together perspectives from Political Science, Sociology and IR, it analyses three arenas of social change: socio-economic systems, political systems, and foreign policies.
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About the Author
PROF. LI CHUNLING Professor of Sociology from the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China LINDA JAKOBSON Program Director of East Asian studies at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia PROF. MARKKU KIVINEN Director of the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland PROF. SERGEI MEDVEDEV Professor and Associate Dean at the State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia PROF. MINXIN PEI Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and the Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA
