Roads to the temple : truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987-1991

Roads to the temple : truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987-1991 /

Leon Aron considers the "mystery of the Soviet collapse" and finds answers in the intellectual and moral self-scrutiny of glasnost that brought about a profound shift in values. Reviewing the entire output of the key glasnost outlets in 1987-1991, he elucidates and documents key themes in...

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Main Author: Aron, Leon Rabinovich
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012
Subjects:
Glasnost.
Social action > Soviet Union.
Social change > Soviet Union.
Values > Soviet Union.
Collective memory > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Moral conditions.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1970-1991.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The "Mystery" of the Soviet Collapse and the Theory of Revolutions
  • 2. For Truth and Goodness: The Credos of Glasnost
  • 3. Inside the "Deafened Zone"
  • 4. In Search of History
  • 5. "The Innocent, the Slandered, the Exterminated"
  • 6. The Peasant Hecatomb
  • 7. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, I: Food, Housing, Medical Care, the "Golden Childhood," and the Standard of Living
  • 8. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, II: Progress, the "State of Workers and Peasants," Equality, "Freedom from Exploitation," Novocherkassk
  • 9. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, III: The Great Patriotic War
  • 10. The "Immoral" Economy
  • 11. The "Disintegration of Souls": Homo Sovieticus
  • 12. The House That Stalin Built: The Master State and its Political Economy
  • 13. "De-individualization," the "Original Sin," and the Nationalization of Conscience
  • 14. Stalin, Memory, Repentance, Atonement
  • 15. The "Spirit of Freedom" and the Power of Nyet
  • 16. The Freedom Canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman
  • 17. In Man's Image, I: "Privatizing" the State and Economy
  • 18. In Man's Image, II: The Empire, the "Garrison State," and the World
  • Epilogue
  • Glasnost's Signposts: The Themes and the Texts
  • Glasnost's Troubadours
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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