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Soviet Labour Ideology and the Collapse of the State

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  • © 2000

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  1. Bobo Lo

    1. Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 1-16

  3. Andropov and the Intensification of Labour

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 17-53

  4. Soviet Labour Ideology during the Chernenko Interregnum

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 54-66

  5. Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Moderate Intra-systemic Phase, 1985–87

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 67-99

  6. Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Radical Intra-systemic Phase, 1987–90

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 100-133

  7. Ideological Transformation under Gorbachev: The Extra-systemic Phase, 1990–91

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 134-166

  8. Labour and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Russia

    • Bobo Lo
    Pages 167-195

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 196-235
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This book examines the transformation of Soviet labour ideology during the last decade of the USSR, and its critical relationship to the collapse of the Soviet state. The author focuses on regime attempts to revive Soviet economic performance on the basis of increased labour productivity, and shows how their failure had unforeseen and catastrophic consequences for the legitimacy of the state. Far from reinvigorating concepts about the role and nature of labour in Soviet society, the regime succeeded only in demonstrating its own impotence and unsustainability.

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  • Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

    Bobo Lo

About the author

BOBO LO is First Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, and at the University of Melbourne where he completed a Ph.D. in soviet politics.

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