Ideology and system change in the USSR and East Europe : selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

These studies cover a range of topics - market reforms, social justice, ecology, nationalism, new political parties and more - that are at the centre of the revolutionary changes under way in the former Soviet bloc. The breadth of this book's subject matter is complemented by the variety of methods and approaches that it features: historical interpretation, linguist analysis, statistical analysis and political sociology. The result is a genuinely inter disciplinary treatment of this important topic. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR....Pages 3-19 The End of Ideology in the Soviet Union....Pages 20-29 Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR....Pages 30-49 Social Structure, Social Change and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective from Brezhnev to Gorbachev....Pages 50-69 Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion....Pages 70-91 Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR....Pages 92-120 Ideology, Postcommunist Values and the Environment....Pages 121-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 The Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin....Pages 141-161 The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956–90....Pages 162-182 Crises, Contradictions and East Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika....Pages 183-201 Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the 1980s....Pages 202-212 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR....Pages 215-234 The Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Recent Soviet Research....Pages 235-253 Some Conclusions On New Beginnings....Pages 254-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-271 Zeke Snow isn't exactly sure what to do with the woman who represents everything he's spent the last three years trying to forget. She's irritating, argumentative, and damned annoying.and she smells like heaven. He'll either kill her or kiss her before their journey is over. Or will he simply give into his heart and love her? All Susan Thompson ever wanted was to be happy, but is getting married simply because it's expected the answer? Stranded in a snowstorm with a gruff but handsome truck driver as her only means of transportation, thoughts of her fianci begin to fade as she learns more about her heart than she ever dreamed possible. Edited By Michael E. Urban. This Book Is Published In Association With The International Council For Soviet And East European Studies--t.p. Verso. First Published In Great Britain 1992 By The Macmillan Press Ltd--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The studies collected in this volume cover a range of topics - market reforms, social justice, ecology, nationalism, new political parties - that are at the centre of the revolutionary changes under way in the former Soviet bloc