Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model: A Legacy for Gorbachev

by Stefan Hedlund and Kristian Gerner

First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model assumes that since the October Revolution the development of the Soviet Union has essentially been a process of trial and error. Economic rationality has been sacrificed to political expedients, and the cultural sphere has been put to use as a legitimating and rationalizing device. This book analyses the internal logic of this process from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032211911
• ISBN13: 9781032211916
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 465 Pages