A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

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Routledge, 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.
 

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Theoretical Concepts
Socialism and Russian Nationalism
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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