A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It CollapsedRoutledge, 5 лип. 2017 р. - 288 стор. Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike. |
Зміст
Adjusting the Revolutionary Ideology to Totalitarian Goals | |
World Revolution As a Geopolitical Instrument | |
Open and Closed Ideologies | |
The Economy Organic Flaws and Achievements | |
Public Opinion Acceptance of the Regime | |
The Regime and the Empire A Complex Relationship | |
Reforms Alternatives in History | |
Reforming the System Destroying Its Fundamentals | |
Consequences | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Policy Toward Key Social Groups Workers and Creative Intelligentsia | |
The Political System The Supreme Leader As the Major Institution | |
An Effective Political Machine | |
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Alexander Anatolii Andrei Andropov apparatchiks army authors Bolsheviks Brezhnev Central Committee civil closed ideology collapse collectivization country’s cultural decades democratic economic elite ethnic fear foreign geopolitical Germany goals Gorbachev Goskomstat groups Gulag industry instance institutions intellectuals intelligentsia Khrushchev Komsomol Kremlin leadership Lenin Levada liberal Literaturnaia gazeta major Marxist Medvedev Mikhail military million Moscow Moskovskie novosti nationalist Nezavisimaia gazeta Nikolai nomenklatura non-Russians October Revolution official ideology open ideology particularly party secretary peasants people’s percent perestroika period Politburo political police Politizdat population post-Stalin Pravda production propaganda Red Army reforms regime republics revolutionary Richard Pipes role Russian scholars Sergei Shlapentokh social socialist Soviet economy Soviet empire Soviet history Soviet leaders Soviet society Soviet system Soviet Union Stalin supported technological totalitarian totalitarianists University Press USSR various victory Vladimir Volkogonov VTsIOM West Western workers World Revolution wrote Yeltsin York Yurii