Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System: A Critical History of Soviet Ideological Discourse'. . . this is an excellent book which sheds considerable light upon the role of ideology, particularly in the last years of the Soviet Union.' - Graeme Gill, Europe - Asia Studies '. . . this work is a serious attempt to bring ideolog |
Contents
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The Origins of Soviet Ideology and the Power of the Party | 31 |
Ideology After Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev and the Revival of Communist Construction | 64 |
Breaking the Ice From Uskorenie to Perestroika Gorbachevism 198587 | 95 |
The Second Phase of Perestroika Socialist Pluralism of Opinions the Socialist Lawbased State Socialist Choice and the Party | 122 |
The End of the Soviet Model of Politics The Failure of the Party and the Collapse of Party Hegemony | 152 |
Conclusion Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System | 189 |
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21st Congress 24th Congress action activity Aleksandr Yakovlev Article Six Brezhnev capitalist Central Committee plenum claimed commune democracy communist construction Communist Party concept consciousness conservatives consolidation construction of communism contradictions created defined democratic deputies developed socialism dictatorship draft Programme economic elections electoral ensure force GIRS glasnost goal rationality Gorbachev historical I-RDG ibid idea institutions Khrushchev KPSS leader leadership leading role legitimation Lenin Ligachev Marx Marxism-Leninism Moscow October revolution party cadres Party Congress party organizations party's power perestroika pluralism of opinions Pravda problems production progress proletariat public organizations reform representative revolution revolutionary transfer socialist and communist socialist choice socialist construction socialist law-based socialist pluralism Soviet ideology Soviet political system Soviet socialism Soviet society Soviet Studies Soviet system Soviet Union stage Stalin Stalinist structure struggle Supreme Soviet tasks teleological telos theory transfer of power Twenty-eighth Congress unity uskorenie USSR Yakovlev Yeltsin