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Subject(s)

• Political culture—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Conduct of life [Browse]
• Dissenters—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Social reformers—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Revolutionaries—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Social sciences and ethics—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Moral conditions [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Intellectual life—1970-1991 [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1953-1985 [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1985-1991 [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 21. [More in this series]
• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies

Summary note

This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin's Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the moral universe of Stalin's timeexplores the history of the moral thinking of the dissident intelligentsiaexamines the moral dimension of Soviet dissent amongst dissidents of both religious and secular persuasions, and includes biographical material explores the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era, f

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-269) and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; 1 Russian moral traditions before 1917; 2 Tension and change in revolutionary ethics; 3 Moral experience under Stalin; 4 The rebirth of conscience under Khrushchev; 5 The ethics of the human rights movement; 6 In search of inner freedom; 7 Dialogue and division in the dissident movement; 8 Conscience in literature; 9 Moral aspects of in-system dissent; 10 The ethics of the party reformers; 11 Conscience and repentance during glasnost'
• 12 The democratic movement and its dilemmas13 Conclusion; Appendix: List of interviews; Notes; Index

ISBN

• 1-317-57121-5
• 1-317-57122-3
• 0-203-39803-3
• 9780203398036

OCLC

• 885122035
• 885208486

Doi

10.4324/9780203398036

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