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xii, 483 pages ; 25 cm |
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Revolutions, ideas, and the end of the Soviet Union -- The "mystery" of the Soviet collapse and the theory of revolutions -- For truth and goodness: the credos of glasnost -- Inside the "deafened zone" -- In search of history -- "The innocent, the slandered, the exterminated" -- The peasant hecatomb -- The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, I: food, housing, medical care, the "golden childhood", and the standard of living -- The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, II: progress, the "state of workers and peasants", equality, "freedom from exploitation", Novocherkassk -- The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, III: the Great Patriotic War -- The "immoral" economy -- The "disintegration of souls": homo sovieticus -- Who is to blame? -- The house that Stalin built: the master state and its political economy -- De-individualization, the "original sin", and the nationalization of conscience -- What is to be done? Stalin, memory, repentance, atonement -- The "spirit of freedom" and the power of nyet -- The freedom canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman -- In man's image, I: "privatizing" the state and economy ; In man's image, II: the empire, the "garrison state", and the world. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-466) and index. |
| Summary |
Leon Aron considers the "mystery of the Soviet collapse" and finds answers in the intellectual and moral self-scrutiny of glasnost that brought about a profound shift in values. Reviewing the entire output of the key glasnost outlets in 1987-1991, he elucidates and documents key themes in this national soul-searching and the "ultimate" questions that sparked moral awakening of a great nation: "Who are we? How do we live honorably? What is a dignified relationship between man and state? How do we atone for the moral breakdown of Stalinism? "--Publisher description. |
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991.
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Glasnost.
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Social action -- Soviet Union.
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Social change -- Soviet Union.
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Values -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Moral conditions.
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Collective memory -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1970-1991.
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Collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01739814
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Glasnost. (OCoLC)fst00943026
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
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Social action. (OCoLC)fst01122251
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Values. (OCoLC)fst01163906
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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1970-1991
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780300118445 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300118449 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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