| On Socialist Democracy Contributor(s): Medredev, Roy A. (Author), Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393008509 ISBN-13: 9780393008500 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1977 Annotation: From within the Soviet Union, a critique of the Soviet political system by the celebrated dissident scholar. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 320.947 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Norton Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 4.88" W x 7.32" (0.77 lbs) 446 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Roy Medvedev demonstrates, in engrossing and sharp detail, how the vast gulf between Marxist-Leninist principles and official Soviet attitudes and procedures turned vital theory into hollow dogma. Focusing on the rigidities of official ideology, he makes brilliantly clear the ways in which an excessively centralized and cumbersome bureaucratic structure was disastrous for the economic, intellectual, and moral development of Soviet society--keeping it dangerously insular in an era of increasing internationalism. |