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Daniels, Robert Vincent was born on January 4, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Whiting and Helen Underwood (Hoyt) Daniels.
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This anthology of documents and essays examines the transformation and ultimate demise of communism in the former Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era. The selections address cultural and social ferment, political events, economic and technological change, military, diplomacy, ideology, and resurgence of nationalism and ethnic conflicts.
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Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of American misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the "grand surprise" of its collapse in 1991. Daniels's perspective is always original, and his assessments, some worked out years ago, are strikingly prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, Daniels argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.
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The USA has been going through a new kind of revolution, which though it did not literally overthrow the government, transformed racial, gender, and other social relationships, and bequeathed the deep divisions now felt in the nation's politics and culture.
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Robert V. Daniels' book Russia: The Roots of Confrontation, first published in 1985, examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. The book springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its international relations can be understood only in light of the traumas and triumphs, privation and privileges that the country weathered in its unique past under the tsars and the Soviets. The author lays to rest the mistaken American view that Soviet behavior was simply the application of Marxist revolutionary ideology. The character of the Soviet system as it evolved after the Revolution is shown to be a synthesis of revolutionary rhetoric, dictatorial pragmatism, and traditional Russian kinds of behavior. Daniels points out that no part of the world is more alien to Americans than Russia, and he evokes parallels and contrasts with the American experience to clarify the driving forces behind this ill-understood superpower.
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From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. Year of the Heroic Guerrilla is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval. Daniels vividly depicts the great crises of that era: the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson; the denouncement of the counterculture; the fissuring of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the student revolt at Columbia University; the May uprising in France that nearly overthrew the Fifth Republic; the "cultural revolution" in China; the chilling of the Prague Spring by the Soviet army; and, finally, the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago, signaling the downturn of the revolutionary spirit in America.
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As attempts to reform the Soviet system under the banner of perestroika are clouded by mounting uncertainty, there has been a resurgence of interest within the Soviet Union and around the globe in the forces, ideas and circumstances that contributed to the Stalinist inheritance. The investigation of possible historical alternatives to that system and the early debates over the meaning of "socialism" and its variants have become vital concerns in the Soviet Union today. This book offers a selection of the writings of Robert V. Daniels on the formative period of the Soviet political and economic system. The focus of the essays is on the two commanding personalities that dominated the Soviet scene after Lenin - Trotsky, the flamboyant theorist, and Stalin, the vindictive pragmatist.
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Daniels, Robert Vincent was born on January 4, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Whiting and Helen Underwood (Hoyt) Daniels.
AB, Harvard University, 1945. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1951.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Vermont, 1994.
Research associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1951-1952. Social science faculty Bennington (Vermont) College, 1952-1953, 57-58. Assistant professor Slavic studies Indiana University, 1953-1955.
Research associate Columbia University, 1955-1956. From assistant professor history to professor University Vermont, Burlington, 1956-1988, professor emeritus, 1988—2010, chairman department, 1964-1969, director experimental program, 1969-1971. Member Vermont Senate, 1973-1982, assistant minority leader, 1977-1980, minority leader, 1981-1982.
Chairman Vermont Governor's Commission Medical Care, 1974-1975. Member Vermont Health Policy Corporation, 1977-1980. Member advisory committee on East Europe and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Council on International Exchange of Scholars, 1983-1985.
Advisory council Center for International Political Studies, Rome, 1989-2010. Member sister state committee Vermont-Karelia, 1991-2010, co-director self-government training program, 1993-1994. Director University Vermont Petrozavodsk University partnership program, 1994-1995.
Member supervisory board International Cooperative Center Karelian branch St. Petersburg Academy Public Administration.
(As attempts to reform the Soviet system under the banner ...)
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(This anthology of documents and essays examines the trans...)
( From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the p...)
(THE CONSCIENCE OF THE REVOLUTION Communist Opposition in ...)
(A Documentary History of Communism and the World: Social ...)
( Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. ...)
(Russian Research Center Studies, No. 40.)
(Book by Daniels, Robert Vincent)
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Member Chittenden County (Vermont) Democratic Committee, 1959-2010. Member Burlington City Democratic Committee, 1965-2010. Chairman policy and planning platform committee Vermont Democratic Party, 1962-1966, 69-73, 76-80, member executive committee, 1981-1985.
Alternate Democratic National Convention, 1968. Member Democratic Platform Committee, 1980. Board visitors United States Air Force Academy, 1965-1967.
Ensign United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow Vermont Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American History Association (president conference Slavic and East European history 1976-1977), American Association Advancement Slavic Studies (board directors 1968-1971, vice president 1991, president 1992, chairman committee on government affairs 1993-1994, Distinguished Contributions award 2001), Canada Association Slavists, Authors' Guild, Vermont History Society (trustee 1968-1971), Vermont Council World Affairs, Norwich Center/Bridges for Peace (board directors 1988-1994), Harvard Club Vermont (president 1974-1975).
Married Alice May Wendell, July 2, 1945. Children: Robert H., Helen L. Turcotte, Irene L., Thomas L.