The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
Robert V. Daniels
Abstract
This book offers a survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during a career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, the book explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of the United States' misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the “grand surprise” of its collapse in 1991. The book's assessments, some worked out years ago, are prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Sovi ... More
This book offers a survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during a career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, the book explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded. The book exposes a long history of the United States' misunderstanding of the Soviet Union, leading up to the “grand surprise” of its collapse in 1991. The book's assessments, some worked out years ago, are prescient in the light of post-1991 archival revelations. Soviet Communism evolved and decayed over the decades, the book argues, through a prolonged revolutionary process, combined with the challenges of modernization and the personal struggles between ideologues and power-grabbers.
Keywords:
ideology,
Soviet Union,
Karl Marx,
Boris Yeltsin,
history,
Communism,
revolutionary process,
modernization,
Soviet system,
United States
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300106497 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300106497.001.0001 |
