Background
Buckley, Mary Elizabeth Anne was born on June 26, 1951 in London. Daughter of Stanley James and Barbara Eileen (Noverraz) Buckley.
(With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians hav...)
With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians have been forced to redefine their society and polity. Journalists, academics and politicians all needed a new language in which to articulate many previously buried "new" concepts and issues. Concepts such as pluralism, democracy, civil society and crises, and issues such as crime, prostitution, drugs, AIDS, rape, child abuse and housing, brought a range of public and media responses. This book aims to show how glasnost provided citizens with an initially intoxicating freedom and glut of information, yet in a context of failed economic reform also brought some extreme reactions. Drawing on material from newspapers and interviews with political figures and representatives from across the spectrum of opinions and beliefs, as well as on jokes, rumours and myths circulating in Moscow and St Petersburg, the book offers a reflection of the complexities of the situation in Russia today.
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Buckley, Mary Elizabeth Anne was born on June 26, 1951 in London. Daughter of Stanley James and Barbara Eileen (Noverraz) Buckley.
Bachelor in Social Sciences with honors, Leicester (England) University, 1972. Master of Science in Politics with Sociology, London University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 1981.
Lecturer, U. Edinburgh, 1983-1991; senior lecturer, U. Edinburgh, 1991-1994; reader in politics, U. Edinburgh, since 1994.
(With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians hav...)
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