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The Strange Death of Soviet Communism: A Postscript

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    9781412806978

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    1412806976

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-05-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

"What took place in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991, in the eyes of its proponents, constituted a "great experiment" in the application of new modes of organization to social life, the largest such experiment in history. This book brings together leading scholars of Soviet history to show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of Socialist utopias. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, Slavic studies specialists and sociologists."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Why Did It Happen?
The Modern Polybiusp. 3
The Modernizing Imperative: The USSR as an Ordinary Countryp. 9
Fortune and Fatep. 21
Did the West Undo the Eastp. 31
The Economic Fallacyp. 45
The Nature of the Beastp. 61
The Role of Popular Discontentp. 77
Sins of the Scholars
1917 and the Revisionistsp. 91
A Fatal Logicp. 109
Academe and the Soviet Mythp. 125
The Pluralist Miragep. 137
Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortemp. 151
Intellectuals and Communism
Did We Go Too Far?p. 173
My Cold Warp. 183
Epilogue
The Arithmetic of Atrocityp. 191
The Long Goodbye - And Eric's Consoling Liesp. 199
Judging Nazism and Communismp. 213
Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failedp. 235
Indexp. 245
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