Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia.

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 mo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Boobbyer, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Series:BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 21.
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'
  • 12 The democratic movement and its dilemmas13 Conclusion; Appendix: List of interviews; Notes; Index.