Controversies in Soviet Social Thought
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Akademiia Nauk
Author_Murray Yanowitch
Bourgeois Democracy
Brigade Leaders
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Civil Society
commodity
Common Language
discussions
distributive
economic inequality analysis
Egalitarian Sentiments
Elected Work Councils
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Governing Labor Management Relations
literature
Managerial Elections
Marxist theory critique
Minimalist Pluralism
Minimalist Version
money
Multiparty System
Official Soviet Version
period
political pluralism studies
pre-gorbachev
pre-Gorbachev Period
Principal Economic Policies
property rights transition
Rabochii Klass
relations
Social Consumption Funds
Soviet Discussions
Soviet Literature
Soviet reform movements
Soviet social justice debates
State Enterprise Law
Strict Algorithm
Unequal Purchasing Power
Wage Differentiation
War Communism
Worker Independence
workplace democratization
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- ISBN 9780873328814
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the past several years observers have become aware of what might be called the "expansionary logic" of the reform debate in the Soviet Union. Punctuated by periods of reaction and retreat, successive phases of reform momentum have brought to the fore ideas and proposals that only months before had been considered too radically unorthodox for prudent discussion. In this account, Murray Yanowitch traces the dynamic evolution of reform thinking and the emergence of liberal and social-democratic schools of thought on several pivotal issues. He shows how the contemporary debate over a recurrent theme - workplace democracy - escalated into demands for democratization of the society and political pluralism, and how similarly time-honoured discussions of the problem of economic inequality took unexpected turns, leading to reconsideration of notions of social justice, attacks on privilege, and, ultimately, demands for destatization and property reform. The cumulative impact of these developments, Yanowitch shows, has not only delegitimated the monopoly of the Communist party but has destroyed the sacral character of Marxism-Leninism itself.
