This innovative book offers a critical history of the development
of Soviet ideology, discussing its centrality to Soviet politics
and the destructive effect that it had on the Gorbachev
reforms.Neil Robinson analyses the nature and historical evolution
of Soviet ideology between 1917 and 1985 to demonstrate the
structural importance of Soviet ideological discourse and the
uncertain place that it allocated to the communist party in the
Soviet political system. On the basis of this analysis, Dr Robinson
provides a fresh interpretation of Gorbachev's political reforms.
He describes the ideological dynamic that underwrote the
development of perestroika, how Gorbachev's ideas on
democratization sent contradictory messages to the communist party,
and how this stimulated opposition to perestroika from party cadres
and Soviet society. Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System
establishes the ideological roots of the crisis of Soviet power
under Gorbachev and provides a convincing account of the Soviet
system's inability to reform itself.
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