The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy - Nataliya Kibita

The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy

Power Sharing, Regionalism, and Authoritarianism

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Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289881-4 (ISBN)
148,35 inkl. MwSt
Draws on unused archival material to demonstrate that weak central authority and pronounced regionalism was Ukraine's Soviet legacy, and that the established power of these regional clans made (post-Soviet) Ukrainian politics resistant to Russian?style authoritarianism, even when the Soviet centralised party-state system collapsed.
Ukraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's post-independence period has been characterised by pluralism.

To explain why and how Ukraine's and Russia's paths diverged, this monograph investigates the century-long and Soviet origins of regionalism in Ukraine, which the author argues are at the foundation of the modern Ukrainian institutional system. Drawing on unused archival material, the book re-examines the relationship between Moscow, Kyiv, and the Ukrainian regions in the period from spring 1917 to summer 1994 to demonstrate how interlinked political and economic incentives and constraints determined the opportunities and institutional interests of both the Ukrainian leadership and those of the Ukrainian regions, and how this institutional framework affected in turn the dynamic of the relationship between the central leadership in Moscow, the Ukrainian leadership, and the regions. The result - weak central authority and pronounced regionalism - was Ukraine's Soviet legacy, and the established power of regional clans made (post-Soviet) Ukrainian politics resistant to Russian?style authoritarianism, even when the Soviet centralised party-state system collapsed.

This innovative and wide-ranging approach to the history of economic management highlights the importance of considering long-term historical trends for understanding both the complicated nature of Soviet institutions and their varied and contested legacies across post-Soviet space.

Nataliya Kibita is as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Research Affiliate in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has previously taught at LSE and Harvard, and she is the author of Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform.

Maps and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Centralised administration in Ukraine for Ukraine
2: New system
3: Industrialisation and collectivisation: No place for the Ukrainian government
4: Ukrainian leadership and the regions during the decentralisation reforms
5: Economic recentralisation and the Ukrainian leadership
6: Shcherbytsky's leadership: Playing by the rules
7: The choice not made
8: The more we centralise the less order there is in the state

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 30 black and white images
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 796 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
ISBN-10 0-19-289881-7 / 0192898817
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289881-4 / 9780192898814
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