Robust Revolution to Retiring Revolution: The Life Cycle of the Soviet Revolution, 1945-1968

Author: Weiner, Amir

Source: The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, Number 2, 1 April 2008 , pp. 208-231(24)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

The article addresses the three institutional pillars of the Soviet polity — political order of a single-party dictatorship with the distinctive feature of party-state bifurcation, economic order of non-market, non-private property economy, and a system of mass state terror — and the way they coped with particular circumstances between 1945 and 1968, especially the Second World War, the profound change in its composition (i.e., the renunciation of the mass terror), changes in the supreme leadership, generational change and interactions with the outside world.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Stanford University

Publication date: 2008-04-01

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The Review is the oldest British journal in the field, having been in existence since 1922. Edited and managed by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, it covers not only the modern and medieval languages and literatures of the Slavonic and East European area, but also history, culture, and political studies.