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Dismantling Utopia - How Information Ended the Soviet Union

English · Paperback / Softback

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A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. "Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union." -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times.

List of contents










Part 1 Introduction 3
Part 2 Before: Information Criminal 9
Part 3 Information Control and the Soviet Crisis 43
Part 4 What Price Socialism? An Economy Without Information 75
Part 5 The KGB, Father of Perestroika 99
Part 6 The Press and the Restoration of History 121
Part 7 Television and the Revival of Politics
Part 8 A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion 182
Part 9 Letting Go of the Leninist Faith 212
Part 10 After: The Coup-Proof Society 245
Part 11 Epilogue 276
Part 12 Acknowledgments 291
Part 13 Notes 293
Part 14 Index 305


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Scott Shane

Product details

Authors Scott Shane
Publisher Ivan R. Dee
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.08.1995
 
EAN 9781566630993
ISBN 978-1-56663-099-3
No. of pages 338
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
Weight 478 g
Series How Information Ended the Sovi
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

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