Description
| Product ID: | 9781563244728 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Normal Totalitarian Society |
| Subtitle: | How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed |
| Authors: | Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political structure and processes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Marxism & Communism, Political structure & processes, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), 20th century |
| Description: | This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-Soviet decade. Without overlooking the USSR's repressive character, the author treats it as a "normal" system that employed socialist and nationalist ideologies. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1997-01-31 |
