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Soviet Ideologies in the Period of Glasnost: Responses to Brezhnev's Stagnation
Soviet Ideologies in the Period of Glasnost Responses to Brezhnev's Stagnation Author:Vladimir Shlapentokh "Shlapentokh . . . former senior fellow at Moscow's Institute of Sociology, has written an important study of responses to the general domestic crisis of the USSR. The first half of the book is devoted to examination of the background of the current crisis; the second half covers major ideological tendencies, `conservative,' `neo-Stalinist,' and... more » `liberal.' Shlapentokh shows how Gorbachev has gradually absorbed much, but by no means all, of the `liberal' ideology but concludes that future prospects for liberalizing tendencies are highly uncertain. . . . Shlapentokh's insights make this first comprehensive treatment of Soviet ideology in the Gorbachev era one of the more significant studies of the USSR in recent years." Choice« less