Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Reflections and the First Miners' Strike -- 1. Workers, Collective Action, and Political Movements -- 2. The 1989 Miners' Strike -- II. Cold Steel: Soviet Workers and Mutual Dependence -- 3. Steelworkers and Mutual Dependence...

Marx promoted the idea that economic laws were universal, but the Soviet Union tested his ideas on the premise that by eliminating private property they could eliminate markets and prices?and they tested that proposition on a grand scale. However, in managing an economy based on public...

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Can the economics of Eastern Europe make the dramatic transition from centrally-planned to market-led economics? This book tries to understand the intellectual background behind this change and the problems of managing it

Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge provides a unique basis to contrast and compare the plethora of theories of, and policies for, economic properity, environmental sustainability and social progress

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Note on Transliteration -- A Note on the Documents -- Glossary of Russian Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Grain Procurement Crisis -- Chapter 1. The Crisis of NEP: 7 May 1927-14 January 1928 -- Chapter...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation -- A Note on the Relative Value of Money Then and Now -- Prologue: The Patrimony of Imperial Russia -- Introduction to Bolshevik Gold: The Nature of a Forgotten Problem -- I. The Heist -- 1. The Banks...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Technical Terms, and Conventions -- Note on References -- 1 The Dictator and Defense -- 2 Before Stalinism: The Early 1920s -- 3 Hierarchies and Markets: The Defense Industry Under Stalin -- 4 Planning the...

COVER -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- HARE KRISHNA -- MY THINKING -- AN ELEGY -- INSPIRATION -- PRAYINGS Of JATAYU -- PRAYER TO HANUMAN -- CONCENTRATION -- CHANDAMAMA -- PRAYER -- AFTER RETURNING FROM VANCOUVER -- COMPARISON -- A REAL FRIEND -- A-FEAST - AND A QUESTION -- WHY? -- THIS IS WHAT I FEEL...

Describing a rhetorical approach to crisis communication, this text reviews rhetorical perspective on organizational crisis, raising questions and provoking issues. It aims to add depth and a breadth of understanding to the analysis of the rhetorical implications of a crisis