A Century of State Murder?: Death and Policy in Twentieth Century Russia

Russia has one of the lowest rates of adult life expectancy in the world. Average life expectancy for a man in America is 74; in Russia, it is just 59. Birth rates and population levels have also plummeted. These excess levels of mortality affect all countries that formed the former Soviet bloc. Running into many millions, they raise obvious comparisons with the earlier period of forced transition under Stalin. This book seeks to put the recent history of the transition into a longer-term perspective by identifying, explaining and comparing the pattern of change in Russia in the last century. It offers a sharp challenge to the conventional wisdom and benign interpretations offered in the west of what has happened since 1991. Through a careful survey of the available primary and secondary sources, Mike Haynes and Rumy Husan have produced the first and most complete and accurate account of Russian demographic crisis from the Revolution to the present.

History

Haynes, Michael

Husan, Rumy

Russia

Pluto Press

Glaister (Leeds University Business School, UK) defines the trend of international equity joint ventures (IJVs) as a strategic alliance involving offspring of two or more active parent organizations, at least one having a significant level of operation in more than one country or headquarters outside the country of operation. Although IJVs are amenable to standard business analyses, they entail special issues, e.g., partner choice and extent of control, which require new thinking about cooperation, culture, learning, and networks. Focusing on partners from developed industrial economies, this interview and survey-based study examines dimensions of such ventures. Profiles of the 20 IJVs sampled are appended. Much of the content derives from recent conference and print material. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Strategic Business Alliances: An Examination of the Core Dimensions (New Horizons in International Business series)

Business & Money

Buckley, Peter J.

Glaister, Keith W.

International

Edward Elgar Publishing

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