A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

by Vladimir Shlapentokh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563244721
• ISBN13: 9781563244728
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"