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

Author: Weiner, Amir¹

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

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