Written just before the war with Iraq, and before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this volume explains clearly how electronic combat is changing ground, air, and naval warfare as well as peacetime conflicts and the secret world of espionage. It also explains the Soviet military's strategy of "Radioelectronic Struggle" and its future weapon, the reconnaissance-strike complex. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Quick and the Dead: Electronic Combat and Modern Warfare

History

MUNRO, Neil

Military

St.Martin's Press

The chaotic adventures of Para Handy and the eccentric crew of his little steamship sailing along the Scottish coast first appeared more than half a century ago. This cassette, published to coincide with a BBC television series, features stories read by Gregor Fisher.

Para Handy Tales

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pan.

Russians want free elections and order. Although their political elites have had no difficulty in supplying candidates and parties in the last decade, predictability in everyday life and the rule of law have suffered. This book is about Russia's attempt to achieve democratization backwards, by holding elections without having created a modern state. This dilemma is the challenge that Russia presents to Vladimir Putin.

Elections without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin

Business & Money

ROSE, RICHARD

Economics

Cambridge University Press

All forms of government require popular support to survive, whether voluntary or involuntary. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward democracy, yet under Vladimir Putin Russia has become increasingly undemocratic. This book uses a unique source of evidence, eighteen surveys of Russian public opinion from the first month of the new regime in 1992 up to 2009, to track the changing views of Russians. Clearly presented and sophisticated figures and tables show how political support has increased because of a sense of resignation that is stronger than the uncertain economic reliance on exporting oil and gas. Russia is not only an outstanding example of popular support increasing for a government that rejects democracy, but is also representative of a surprising number of regimes around the world that have been able to mobilize popular support for undemocratic regimes. Richard Rose is Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Sixth Century Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen. William Mishler is Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Aberdeen, and co-editor of the Journal of Politics. Neil Munro is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was formerly a senior research fellow in the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen.

Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime: The Changing Views of Russians

Mishler, William

Russia

Since the fall of communism Russia has undergone a treble transformation of its political, social and economic system. The government is an autocracy in which the Kremlin manages elections and administers the law to suit its own ends. It does not provide the democracy that most citizens desire. Given a contradiction between what Russians want and what they get, do they support their government and, if so, why? Using the New Russia Barometer - a unique set of public opinion surveys from 1992 to 2005 - this book shows that it is the passage of time that has been most important in developing support for the new regime. Although there remains great dissatisfaction with the regime's corruption, it has become accepted as a lesser evil to alternatives. The government appears stable today, but will be challenged by constitutional term limits forcing President Putin to leave office in 2008.

Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Russians want free elections and order. Although their political elites have had no difficulty in supplying candidates and parties in the last decade, predictability in everyday life and the rule of law have suffered. This book is about Russia's attempt to achieve democratization backwards, by holding elections without having created a modern state. This dilemma is the challenge that Russia presents to Vladimir Putin.

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Literary

Blackwood

Para Handy and Other Tales

Short Stories & Anthologies

Neil Munro's Para Handy

Seanachaidh Presentations

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