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Roads to the temple : truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987-1991 / Leon Aron.
LIBRA DK286 .A76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aron, Leon Rabinovich.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory.
- Moral conditions.
- Values.
- Social change.
- Social action.
- Soviet Union--History--1985-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- History.
- Glasnost.
- Social action--Soviet Union.
- Social change--Soviet Union.
- Values--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Moral conditions.
- Collective memory--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1970-1991.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 483 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Part One. Revolutions, Ideas, and the End of the Soviet Union: 1. The "mystery" of the Soviet collapse and the theory of revolutions; For truth and goodness: the credos of glasnost
- Part Two. Who Are We?:Inside the "deafened zone"; In search of history; "The innocent, the slandered, the exterminated"; The peasant hecatomb; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, I: food, housing, medical care, the "golden childhood", and the standard of living; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, II: progress, the "state of workers and peasants", equality, "freedom from exploitation", Novocherkassk; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, III: the Great Patriotic War; The "immoral" economy; The "disintegration of souls": homo sovieticus
- Part Three.Who is to blame?: The house that Stalin built: the master state and its political economy; De-individualization, the "original sin", and the nationalization of conscience
- Part Four. What Is to be Done?: Stalin, memory, repentance, atonement; The "spirit of freedom" and the power of nyet; The freedom canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman; In man's image, I: "privatizing" the state and economy; In man's image, II: the empire, the "garrison state", and the world
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-466) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300118445
- 0300118449
- OCLC:
- 759174464
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