Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model - A legacy for Gorbachev

List of contents

Tables Preface 1. Setting the stage 2. Searching for the economics of early Soviet planning 3. Formation of the Stalinist political system 4. The Bolshevik order and Russian tradition 5. Summary: political forces 6. The failure of intensification 7. The Khrushchev experience 8. Promoting patriotism: the era of mature Stalinism 9. Summary: the role of ideology 10. Stagnation and the reforms that never were 11. The politics of stagnation 12. Return to Russia 13. Summary: rationality and Soviet man 14. Opening Pandora’s box Notes References Index

About the author

Kristian Gerner and Stefan Hedlund

Summary

First published in 1989, Ideology and Rationality in the Soviet Model analyses the internal logic of this process from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to Gorbachev’s ‘revolution from above’, including coverage of the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras.

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Gerner, Gerner Kristian, Stefan Hedlund
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032211916
• ISBN: 978-1-03-221191-6
• No. of pages: 465
• Weight: 666 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, International Economics, Political Economy, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies