A Normal Totalitarian Society

How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh ISBN: 9781315482712
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh
ISBN: 9781315482712
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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