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Ideology and system change in the USSR and East Europe : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990
- Title
- Ideology and system change in the USSR and East Europe : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 / edited by Michael E. Urban.
- Author
- World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies (4th : 1990 : Harrogate, England)
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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- Description
- xxvii, 271 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The studies collected in this volume cover a range of topics - market reforms, social justice, ecology, nationalism, new political parties - that are at the centre of the revolutionary changes under way in the former Soviet bloc.
- Subject
- Since 1985
- Geschichte 1985-1989
- Political culture > Soviet Union > Congresses
- Political culture > Europe, Eastern > Congresses
- Ideology > Congresses
- Ideology
- Political culture
- Politics and government
- Kongress
- Politischer Wandel
- Politieke stelsels
- Hervormingen
- Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991 > Congresses
- Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1989- > Congresses
- Eastern Europe
- Soviet Union
- Ostblock
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Harrogate (1990)
- Note
- "This book is published in association with the International Council for Soviet and East European Studies"--Title page verso.
- "First published in Great Britain 1992 by The Macmillan Press LTD"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Problem of Ideology and the Question of Change in Soviet-Type Systems / Michael E. Urban -- 1. Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR / Rachel Walker -- 2. End of Ideology in the Soviet Union / James R. Ozinga -- 3. Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR / Hillel H. Ticktin -- 4. Social Structure, Social Change and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective from Brezhnev to Gorbachev / Alfred Evans, Jr. -- 5. Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion / David S. Mason / Svetlana Sydorenko -- 6. Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR / Michael E. Urban / John McClure -- 7. Ideology, Postcommunist Values and the Environment / Charles E. Ziegler -- 8. Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin / Feliks Tych -- 9. Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956-90 / Raymond Taras -- 10. Crises, Contradictions and East Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika / Jonathan C. Valdez -- 11. Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the 1980s / Patrick Seriot -- 12. Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR / Evert van der Zweerde -- 13. Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Reccent Soviet Research / Wolfgang Zeev Rubinsohn -- 14. Some Conclusions on New Beginnings / Michael E. Urban.
- ISBN
- 0312079931
- 9780312079932
- 0333553276
- 9780333553275
- LCCN
- 92002840
- OCLC
- ocm25368437
- 25368437
- SCSB-1965795
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library