Restructuring Soviet Ideology: Gorbachev's New Thinking

ISBN-13: 9780367285869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 226 str.

Sylvia Babus Woodby;Alfred Evans

Opis

This book offers an analysis of the character and impact of ideological change, addresses a different arena of Soviet policy or social life, and reflects somewhat different concerns about the role or significance of ideology. It summarizes the way in which Marxism-Leninism has been understood.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Rethinking Soviet Socialism: The Politics of Ideological Change -- Toward a New Political Economy of Socialism -- Changing Views of Social Differentiation in Soviet Ideology -- The End of the “National Question”: Ideological Decay and Ethnic Relations in the USSR -- Changing Soviet Conceptions of International Security -- Gorbachev’s “New Political Thinking” and Soviet National Security Policy -- The Death of a Dream? Gorbachevist Revisions of Marxism-Leninism for the Third World -- Conclusion