Roads to the temple
Subtitle: truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987-1991
By: Leon Aron
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780300118445
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Collective memory; Social action; Intellectual life; Social change; Glasnost; Values; Moral conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolutions, ideas, and the end of the Soviet Union; title: The "mystery" of the Soviet collapse and the theory of revolutions; title: For truth and goodness: the credos of glasnost; title: Inside the "deafened zone"; title: In search of history; title: "The innocent, the slandered, the exterminated"; title: The peasant hecatomb; title: The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, I: food, housing, medical care, the "golden childhood", and the standard of living; title: The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, II: progress, the "state of workers and peasants", equality, "freedom from exploitation", Novocherkassk; title: The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, III: the Great Patriotic War; title: The "immoral" economy; title: The "disintegration of souls": homo sovieticus; title: Who is to blame?; title: The house that Stalin built: the master state and its political economy; title: De-individualization, the "original sin", and the nationalization of conscience; title: What is to be done? Stalin, memory, repentance, atonement; title: The "spirit of freedom" and the power of nyet; title: The freedom canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman; title: In man's image, I: "privatizing" the state and economy ; In man's image, II: the empire, the "garrison state", and the world.