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List of contents
Introduction -- PART ONE: META-THEORIES OF STATE SOCIALISM -- 1 Marxist Approaches -- The Legitimoting Ideology of State Socialist Societies . The Legitimoting Function of Marxism-Leninism . The Dictatorship of the Working Class: the People's Democracy . Socialist Society. Marxist Criticisms of the Soviet Form of Socialism . Bureaucratic State Capitalism . Maoist Counterpoint . Transitional Economy of a Workers' State 36. Marxism and Soviet Society. -- 2 Non-Marxist Meta-Theories Totalitarianism as an Explanation of State-Socialist Society . The Scope and Values of Rule . The Role of Technology . Criticisms of the Totalitarian Syndrome . Convergence to a Common Type of Industrial Society . Industrialism . Criticisms of Convergence . -- 3 A Developmental Approach -- PART TWO: POLITICAL SYSTEM AND PROCESS -- 4 The Political System and Culture -- The Political Structure . Political Culture . Political Supports . Systemic Contradictions: the Intelligentsia as an 'Ascendanf Class . The Manual Working Class -- as an Opposition . Forms of Dissent and Deviance . Juvenile Delinquency and Alcoholism . The Movement for Individual Rights . Nationalities . Religious Movements . Composition of the Various Opposition Movements . Dissent and Soviet Society . -- 5 The Political Elites Political Leadership . The Soviet Union , Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria , China . -- 6 Counterpoints to the Soviet Model Decentralisation and Workers' Control in Yugoslavia . The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in People's China. Socialist Pluralism: the 'Reform Movemenf in Czechoslovakia . -- 10 The Socialist Industrial State -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL STUCTURE -- 7 Social Inequalities: Occupational and Status Groupings page Skilled and Unskilled; Manual and Non-Manual . Occupational Prestige. Educational Opportunity . Male and Female Differentiation . Social Mobility . -- Bibliography – Index.
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David Lane
Summary
This book explores meta-theories of state socialist society from a conceptual point of view. It traces the institutional framework and conflict between various groupings in the political system and discusses the 'outcomes' of the political system in the form of the nature of social stratification.
