ISBN:
9780415331869
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (297 p)
Series Statement:
BASEES / Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia
DDC:
306.2/0947/0904
Keywords:
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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'
Description / Table of Contents:
12 The democratic movement and its dilemmas13 Conclusion; Appendix: List of interviews; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
