Ideology and System Change in the USSR and East Europe

ISBN-13: 9780333553275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 271 str.

Michael E. Urban

Opis

These studies cover a range of topics - market reforms, social justice, ecology, nationalism, new political parties and more - that are at the centre of the revolutionary changes under way in the former Soviet bloc. The breadth of this book's subject matter is complemented by the variety of methods and approaches that it features: historical interpretation, linguist analysis, statistical analysis and political sociology. The result is a genuinely inter disciplinary treatment of this important topic.

Spis treści

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Problem of Ideology and The Question of Change in Soviet-Type Systems; M.E.Urban - PART 1 IDEOLOGY, CONFLICT AND CHANGE IN THE USSR - Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR; R.Walker - The End of Ideology in the Soviet Union; J.R.Ozluga - Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR; H.H.Ticktin - Social Structure, Social Change, and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective From Brezhnev to Gorbachev; A.Evans,Jr - Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion; D.S.Mason & S.Sydorenko - Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR; M.E.Urban & J.McClure - Ideology, Postcommunist Values and the Environment; C.E.Ziegler - PART 2 NATIONALISM, SOCIALISM AND CRISIS IN EAST EUROPE - The Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin; F.Tych - The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956-1990; R.Taras - Crisis, Contradictions and Eastern Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika; J.C.Valdez - Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the Eighties; P.Seriot - PART 3 PERESTROIKA AND THE HUMANITIES IN THE USSR - Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR; E.van der Zweerde - The Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Recent Soviet Research; W.Z.Rubinsohn - Some Conclusions on New Beginnings; M.E.Urban - Index