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

By Vladimir Shlapentokh

Book Overview

This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-Soviet decade. Without overlooking the USSR's repressive character, the author treats it as a "normal" system that employed socialist and nationalist ideologies.

• 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"