Ideology and System Change in the USSR and East Europe: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR....Pages 3-19
The End of Ideology in the Soviet Union....Pages 20-29
Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR....Pages 30-49
Social Structure, Social Change and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective from Brezhnev to Gorbachev....Pages 50-69
Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion....Pages 70-91
Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR....Pages 92-120
Ideology, Postcommunist Values and the Environment....Pages 121-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin....Pages 141-161
The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956–90....Pages 162-182
Crises, Contradictions and East Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika....Pages 183-201
Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the 1980s....Pages 202-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR....Pages 215-234
The Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Recent Soviet Research....Pages 235-253
Some Conclusions On New Beginnings....Pages 254-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-271