Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations by Alexander Cooley

Author:Alexander Cooley [Cooley, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History & Theory, Political Science, World, Asian, Russian & Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780801443862
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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1. For an important exception that does examine variations in patterns of state-building and identity formation, see David Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998).

2. For a fascinating debate on the role of transitology in post-Soviet studies, see Terry Lynn Karl and Philippe Schmitter, “The Conceptual Travels of Transitologists: How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?” Slavic Review 53 (1994): 173–85; and Valerie Bunce, “Should Transitologists Be Grounded?” Slavic Review 54 (1995): in–27.

3. Oksana Olga Dmitrieva, Regional Development: The USSR and After (London: UCL Press, 1996), ix.

4. Some recent contributions have already demonstrated the theoretical fruitfulness of applying economic concepts of organization to the study of Soviet hierarchies. See Steven Solnick, Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998); and Randall Stone, Satellites and Commissars: Strategy and Conflict in the Politics of Soviet-bloc Trade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

5. Alexander Motyl, Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., The End of Empire? The Disintegration of the USSR in Comparative Perspective (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996); Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen, eds., Afer Empire. Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997); and Hendrik Spruyt, Ending Empire (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ZO05).

6. Martha B. Olcott, “The Basmachi or Freemen’s Revolt in Turkestan 1918–24,” Soviet Studies 33 (1981): 352–69.

7. On the political aims of Soviet nationalities policy, see Mark Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Laitin, Identity in Formation; and Philip Roeder, “Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization,” World Politics 43 (1991): 196–232.

8. On Soviet strategies and Central Asian administration, see Pauline Jones Luong, Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), especially chap. 2. Also see Steven L. Burg, “Muslim Cadres and Soviet Political Development: Reflections from a Comparative Perspective,” World Politics 37 (1984): 24–47; and Geoffrey Wheeler, The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974).

9. For representative works in this debate, see William Fierman, Soviet Central Asia: The Failed Transformation (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991); and Nazif Shahrani, “Muslim Central Asia: Soviet Developmental Legacies and Future Challenges,” in Central Asia and the Caucasus afer the Soviet Union, ed. Mohiaddin Mesbahi, 56–71 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1993).

10. As quoted in Ellen Jones and Robert Grupp, “Modernisation and Ethnic Equalisation in the USSR,” Soviet Studies 36 (1984), 159, ft. 3.

11. On Soviet nationalities policy, see Laitin, Identity in Formation; Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Alexander J. Motyl, Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).

12. World Bank, Statistical Handbook: States of the Former USSR, 1992 (Washington, D.C: World Bank, 1992).

13. On the organization of these

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