TY  - GEN
T1  - Institutions of isolation : border controls in the Soviet Union and its successor states, 1917-1993
A1  - Chandler, Andrea M., 1963-
LA  - English
PP  - Montreal ; Buffalo
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
YR  - 1998
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn614479546
AB  - Chandler provides a comprehensive examination of border controls from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and shows the continued importance of border controls for the newly independent Soviet successor states. She reveals the changing nature of Soviet border control policy, from the extreme Stalinist isolation of the 1930s to liberalization - and eventual instability - during perestroika in the late 1980s. Chandler argues that Communist ideology was not the only reason for the self-imposed isolation of the state and explores a complex, ever-changing set of political, inter-bureaucratic, and economic factors that combined to influence the Soviet Union's closed-border policies. She draws on social science theories of comparative institutional change and state formation to illuminate policies within the Soviet state, which has often been regarded as a unique case. By exploring why a political system that originally prided itself on its internationalism devoted such intense efforts to seal its society from the outside world, Institutions of Isolation provides a revealing case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet state.
OP  - 205
CN  - DK266.A3 C53 1998eb
SN  - 9780773567122
SN  - 0773567127
SN  - 9786612855009
SN  - 6612855002
SN  - 9780773517172
SN  - 0773517170
KW  - Soviet Union : History.
KW  - Soviet Union : Boundaries.
KW  - Former Soviet republics : Boundaries.
KW  - Soviet Union : Foreign relations.
KW  - Soviet Union : Politics and government.
KW  - URSS : Frontières.
KW  - Ex-URSS : Frontières.
KW  - URSS : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - URSS : Relations extérieures.
KW  - URSS : Histoire.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Soviet Union : Former Soviet republics
KW  - Grenzschutz
KW  - Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle
KW  - Nachfolgestaaten
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - Russia & Former Soviet Republics.
KW  - Regions & Countries - Europe.
KW  - History & Archaeology.
KW  - Repression : Sowjetunion.
KW  - Grenzkontrolle : Sowjetunion.
KW  - Grenzkontrolle : GUS.
KW  - Kalter Krieg.
KW  - Sowjetunion : Aussenpolitik.
KW  - frontière : contrôle : URSS : 1917 : 1991.
KW  - frontière : contrôle : Communauté d'Etats indépendants : 1991 : 1993.
KW  - GUS.
KW  - Geschichte 1917-1991
KW  - Geschichte 1992-1993
KW  - History
ER  -