A Normal Totalitarian Society - How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed (Paperback)

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.

General

Imprint:	M.E.Sharpe
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1997
First published:	2001
Authors:	Vladimir Shlapentokh
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-56324-472-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-56324-472-1
Barcode:	9781563244728

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