The Soviet Union
Subtitle: internal and external perspectives on Soviet society
By: Vladimir Shlapentokh, Eric Shiraev and Eero Carroll.
Contributors: Shiraev, Eric, 1960-; Carroll, Eero.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780230607774
Subjects: Public opinion -- United States; Public opinion -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, American
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-169) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thinkers from overseas: how western experts described the Soviet Union over its 74-year history; title: Homegrown Russian elites and Soviet realities; title: The Soviet Union in the mirror of American public opinion from the 1930s to 1990; title: Ordinary citizens' perceptions of the Soviet system from within.