Dismantling Utopia - How Information Ended the Soviet Union

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

About the author

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