A Soviet Postmortem: Philosophical Roots of the "Grand Failure"Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 - 166 pages In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, it has become apparent that Sovietology failed, with a few praiseworthy exceptions, to understand the nature and fragility of the Soviet system. A Soviet Postmortem sets the Soviet experiment in a more realistic perspective. Krancberg emphasizes the importance of Marxist-Leninist ideology in formulating sociopolitical norms imposed on society by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Analyzing the realities of the Soviet regime, the author reveals the extent to which Soviet political culture was an artificial imposition with only slender roots in the life of Soviet society. |
Table des matières
Western Sovietology in Crisis | 3 |
A Reappraisal of the Totalitarian Model The Horizontal Concepts | 31 |
The Unity of Theory and Practice in Historical Perspective | 33 |
The Corruption of Democratic Principles | 65 |
Controlling Individual Development and Behavior | 93 |
Soviet Philosophy | 109 |
The Profile of an Empire The World Socialist System | 129 |
Conclusion The Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Journey into the Unknown | 139 |
Early February 1994 | 161 |
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