27th Party Congress
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anti-Semitic
Author_Vladimir Shlapentokh
authoritarian governance
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Chronic
Closed Ideology
comparative political systems
Covert Propaganda
Creative Intelligentsia
elite power structures
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Fukuyama
Gorbachev
ideological state apparatus
ideology
Keynes
leaders
Mass Terror
Military Expenditures
Military Parity
Nep
Normal Totalitarian Society
october
open
Open Ideology
Party Apparatchiks
police
political
post-communist transformation
Postwar
revolution
Russian Federation
socialist modernization
soviet
Soviet History
Soviet Leaders
Soviet political system analysis
Stalin's Time
Stalin’s Time
stenograficheskii
Stenograficheskii Otchet
system
USSR's Demise
USSR’s Demise
Violated
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781563244728
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
