KİTABIN Adı: RUSSIAN CULTURE, POLICY AND POLITICS Editörler: Prof. Dr. Ayşe Dietrich-Dr. Richard Dietrich ISBN: 975-6542-72-1 Yayın Yılı: 2006 Yayınevi: Multilingual Yabancı Dil Yayınları

The essays brought together in this volume examine a number of subjects related to Russian culture and policy both in the Soviet period and since the break-up of the Soviet Union. While the majority discuss some aspect of the dramatic changes that have taken place in the former Soviet territories in Central Asia or the Caucasus, there are others that deal with the policies and attitudes of Russia's current ' neighbors/rivals, or review past Soviet policy and actions that have had a direct impact on the present situation. What emerges very clearly from these different works is that in the past three decades there have been three major events that have shaped the policy and attitudes of Russia seen today - the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the attacks of September 11, 2001.

KİTABIN Adı: The False Promise of Leninism and the Failure of Perestroika Yazarı: Oscar Bandelin ISBN: 0-313-01329-2 Yayın Yılı: 2002 Yayınevi: Greenwood Ebooks

No scholar denies Mikhail S. Gorbachev's role in developing a new approach to Soviet socialism, but most writers emphasize the radical departure from traditional Soviet ideology that perestroika seemed to represent. This work presents perestroika as part of the continuum of European intellectual history. It examines the sources of Gorbachev's thinking and action in 19th-century thought, the development of Russian Marxism through the intellectual crisis at the turn of the 20th century, the pragmatic and philosophical challenges to the Marxist-Leninist paradigm, Stalinism and its critics, and reform Communism in post World War II Eastern Europe. Against this background, the book argues that the decline and fall of Soviet Communism was much more deeply connected with ideological issues than most scholars have realized.

Bandelin presents fresh analyses of the impacts of major works and ideas, such as Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, the neglected Marxian concept of the "Asiatic mode of production," and the underlying relationship of East European reform Communism to perestroika. He analyzes the major intellectual trends of perestroika in terms of these and other currents. This study offers a perspective that challenges most of current scholarship on the issues it raises, suggests new avenues for research, and contributes to a broader overall understanding of the problems of Soviet socialism and Gorbachev's effort to solve them.

KİTABIN Adı:Energy Dimensions of International Relations and Security in East Asia Yazarı:Ed. by A.D. Voskressenski. ISBN: Yayın Yılı:2007 Yayınevi: MGIMO-University

Energy Dimensions of International Relations and Security in East Asia/Under the Direction of A.V. Torkunov. Foreword by A.V. Torkunov. Ed. by A.D. Voskressenski. – M.: MGIMO-University, 2007. – 1040 p.

For the first time in the world literature the international group of experts within the framework of MGIMO-University in cooperation with the transnational company BP Trading Limited analyses the acute fundamental issues of energy parameters of international relations and security in East Asia from the viewpoint of Russian Federation as a world energy exporter.

KİTABIN Adı: Political Systems and Cultures of East Yazarı:Ed. by A.D. Voskressenski. ISBN: Yayın Yılı:2006 Yayınevi: Vostok-Zapad

Political Systems and Cultures of East/ Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), MFA of Russia. Ed. by A.D. Voskressenski. – M.:Vostok-Zapad, 2006. – 688 p.

The publication prepared at the Department of Asian and African Studies under the joint MGIMO-University – BP project compares the evolution and shaping of the political systems, promotes a better understanding of the interactions and contest between various political forces, estimates the maturity of civil society and the democratic political system’s elements in the Asian and African states.