Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
This volume is by no means just an exposition of yet another point
of view on the phenomenon of Russian work culture and its role in
Russias modernization breakthroughs. It presents an unexpected and
original approach, an absolutely new perspective of this seemingly
old topic. On the one hand, the authors consider Russias national
work culture in the context of foreign influence and test it for
resistance to external pressures. On the other hand, they reveal
the foreign trace in its fabric ― the features that were introduced
and internalized in the course of direct and indirect contacts with
foreign cultures. For the authors, Russian national work culture is
not a finished, static entity, but a dynamic system that is in
permanent interaction with (predominantly) Western culture and has
largely developed in direct competition with it. It is this
approach that makes this book exceptionally appealing. -- Vladimir
N. Leksin, Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of
Sciences
THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK IN ENGLISH MARKS THE NEXT TURN IN the
ever-important and ever-uneasy relationship between Russia and the
West, both in its pragmatic and ideological dimensions Judith
Pallot, University of Oxford, Europe-Asia Studies, November 2018
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