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"How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War. The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution reasons that these arguments are too simplistic. Rather, the journey from Bolshevik liberation to totalitarianism was riddled with unsuccessful experiments, compromises, confusion, panic, self-interest and over-optimism. As this book reveals, the emergence (and persistence) of the Bolshevik dictatorship was, in fact, the complicated product of a failed democratic transition. Drawing on long-ignored archival sources and original research, this fascinating volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to reconsider one of the most important and controversial questions of 20th-century history: how to explain the rise of the repressive Stalinist dictatorship"--Publisher's description

Harris, James Fremont: A Study in the Theory and Practice of German Liberalism. - Lanham/N.Y. : University Press of America, 1984. + Enthält Rezensionen von: Laufs, Adolf: Eduard Lasker. Ein Leben für den Rechtsstaat. - Göttingen : Musterschmidt, 1984

Influencers and multipliers of nursing leadership -- Leadership principles and practices : leading through crisis and change -- Professional practice : a prototype linking nursing in interprofessional teams -- Transformative leadership development through executive coaching -- Organizational designs for innovation and creative decision-making in healthcare systems -- Beyond plans : strategic practices in achieving organizational effectiveness -- Procuring and sustaining resources : the budgeting process -- Maximizing human capital -- Managing for high performance and value-based care delivery -- Information management and knowledge development as actions for leaders -- Risk anticipation and management : creating a culture of quality, safety, and value -- Leaders achieving value-based sustainable outcomes in times of uncertainty -- Disseminating leadership excellence messages considering ethical implications -- Translational nursing : leading implementation for sustainable changes -- Polarity thinking and management : tools for nurse leaders to manage paradox and complexity -- Leading and managing population health : improving social determinants of health -- Data management and analysis for successful improvement projects -- Redefining disaster preparedness and management.

Bringing together several key elements needed to identify the most promising themes for future research in selection and classification, this book's underlying aim is to improve job performance by selecting the right persons and matching them most effectively with the right jobs. An emphasis is placed on current, innovative research approaches which in some cases depart substantially from traditional approaches. The contributors -- consisting of professionals in measurement, personnel research, and applied and military psychology -- discuss where the quantum advances of the last decade should

The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive

Key Foundations of Successful Quality Project Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Management : An Overview / James L. Harris and Bettina Riley -- Quality Improvement Projects and Quality Improvement Research : Advancing Translational Science / Linda Roussel -- Implementation Science, Team Science, and Translational Science : The Value for Projects / Clista Clanton and Linda Roussel -- Forming and Managing a Synergistic Interprofessional Improvement Team -- Making the Case for a Project : Organizational and Needs Assessment / Carolyn Thomas Jones and Linda Roussel -- Using Findings from Organizational Analysis and Clinical Needs Assessment to Frame Improvement Projects and Implementation /Linda Roussel and Shea Polancich -- Literature Synthesis and Organizational Alignment to Project Interventions and Implementation / Catherine Dearman and Lolita Chappel-Aiken -- Building the Improvement Project Budget : Quantifying the Cost and Quality Equation / Patricia L. Thomas and James L. Harris -- Developing Metrics That Support Project Plans, Interventions, and Programs / Patricia L. Thomas -- The Institutional Review Board Process / Catherine Dearman, Dionne Roberts, and Lolita Chappel-Aiken -- Big Data and Information Systems : Understanding the Value for Improvement Projects / James L. Harris, Todd Harlan, and Lonnie K. Williams -- Developing Metrics That Support Project Plans, Interventions, and Programs / Patricia L. Thomas and Michael Bleich -- Innovation, Diffusion, and Dissemination of Improvement Outcomes / James L. Harris and Catherine Dearman.