Ideology and Soviet Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Ideology and Soviet Politics

   • Stephen White

   Pages 1-20

3. What is to Count as Ideology in Soviet Politics?

   • Michael Waller

   Pages 21-42

4. Political Ideologies in the Soviet Union: Reflections on Past Attempts to Understand The Relationship between Ideas and Politics

   • Alfred G. Meyer

   Pages 43-58

5. Ideology and System-Building: the Experience under Lenin and Stalin

   • Graeme Gill

   Pages 59-82

6. Developed Socialism and the New Programme of the CPSU

   • Alfred B. Evans

   Pages 83-113

7. Ideology and Soviet Economic Policy

   • David A. Dyker

   Pages 114-135

8. Local Soviets and Popular Needs: Where the Official Ideology Meets Everyday Life

   • Michael E. Urban

   Pages 136-158

9. Soviet Ideology and Female Roles

   • Mary Buckley

   Pages 159-179

10. Ideology and the National Question: Marxism-Leninism and the Nationality Policy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

    • Peter Duncan

    Pages 180-202

11. The Long and Winding Road: Trajectories to Peace and Socialism in Contemporary Soviet Ideology

    • Stephen Shenfield

    Pages 203-224

12. Ideology and the Policy Process

    • Alex Pravda

    Pages 225-252

13. Back Matter

    Pages 253-258

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The official ideology of Marxism-Leninism is central to Soviet politics and yet its development in recent years has received very little scholarly attention. In this book a group of leading specialists drawn from both sides of the Atlantic advance decisively upon all earlier discussions of this subject to provide both an authoritative and detailed picture of the development of official ideology from the early years up to Gorbachev's 1986 Party Programme, as well as a consideration of the changing role of ideology in Soviet foreign and domestic policy-making. The book will be required reading for all students of Soviet and communist politics; it should also be of interest to a wider non-specialist audience.

• communism
• economy
• Lenin
• Policy
• politics
• socialism
• russian and post-soviet politics

• Department of Politics and Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

  Stephen White

• Royal Institute of International Affairs and Department of Politics, University of Reading, UK

  Alex Pravda

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