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Contents |
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List of Figures |
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Preface |
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Introduction |
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Notes |
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PART ONE The genesis of Soviet socialism |
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CHAPTER ONE The crucibles of Russian socialism |
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The origins of socialism |
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The Founding Fathers: Marx and Engels on socialism and communism |
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The future society: an overview |
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The future society: the “lower” phase |
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The future society: the “higher phase” |
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Marx on socialism and communism: a summary and interpretation |
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Friedrich Engels |
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Socialism in Russia: Lenin, Bolshevism and Russian social-democracy |
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Russian social-democracy |
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Summary: Soviet socialism before the revolution |
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Notes |
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PART TWO The emergence of a Soviet model: from the revolution to NEP |
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CHAPTER TWO The revolutionary settlement: state capitalism, technocracy and the transition to socialism |
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The revolutionary decrees |
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The economics of state capitalism |
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Ownership: the meaning of nationalization |
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Control of the economy: centralization v. democratization |
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Organization and control of the national economy |
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Management of industrial enterprises |
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Labour Policy |
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The agricultural sector under state capitalism |
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The politics of state capitalism: the dictatorship of the proletariat? |
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All power to the Soviets? |
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The repressive organs: the army and the CHEKA |
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Rights and freedoms under the dictatorship of the proletariat |
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Building a one-party state? |
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Society and culture under state capitalism |
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Social policy—aspects of egalitarianism |
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The norms and values of Bolshevism |
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Two future chickens: state capitalism and Soviet power in Bolshevik ideology |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER THREE War communism and Soviet Socialism: a technocratic orthodoxy? |
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The economics of “war communism” |
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Industry and economic organization: patterns of ownership and control |
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Patterns of distribution: trade, finance and allocations |
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Management and labour under war communism: triumph of technocracy? |
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One-man management, expertise and hierarchy |
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Labour policy: mobilization, militarization and the statification of the trade unions |
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The triumph of technocracy: Taylorism, scientific management and GOELRO |
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The emergence of Soviet planning |
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Agriculture under war communism |
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The politics of war communism |
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Coercion, authoritarianism and the militarization of the Soviet state |
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Bureaucratization, centralization and the demise of local autonomy |
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The communist party: building a one-party state? |
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The (Less) politics of war communism |
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Society and culture under war communism |
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Equality and inequality under war communism |
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Instilling a new worldview: education, propaganda and the debate over proletarian culture |
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War communism—details and debates |
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War communism and Soviet socialism: a model of Soviet socialism? |
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The theoretical basis of Soviet socialism: statism, technocracy, productivism and collectivism |
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The economics of Soviet socialism |
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The politics of Soviet socialism |
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Socio-cultural aspects of Soviet socialism |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER FOUR NEP and Soviet socialism: departing from orthodoxy? |
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The genesis of NEP |
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The economics of NEP |
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Prodnalog, food policy and the agricultural sector |
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The industrial sector: trustification and commercialization |
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Labour, management and trade unions |
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The politics of NEP |
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The one-party state: pluralism and dissent, within and without |
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From democratic centralism to bureaucratic centralism |
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Terror, coercion and the law |
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Society and culture under NEP |
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Egalitarianism and inegalitarianism: social and economic aspects |
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Culture and education under NEP |
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Understanding NEP: a new model of Soviet socialism? |
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NEP and “peculiar war communism”: of retreats, mistakes and advances |
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NEP and the politics of the worker-peasant smychka: March-October 1921 |
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NEP: from frontal assault to slow siege: October 1921–January 1923 |
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NEP and “On co-operation”: a note |
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NEP and Soviet socialism: an alternative model? |
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NEP and the economics of Soviet socialism |
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NEP and the socio-cultural aspects of Soviet socialism |
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NEP and the politics of Soviet socialism |
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Conclusion: the Soviet model of socialism |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER FIVE Stalin, Trotsky and Bukharin: debating a new orthodoxy |
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Introduction |
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Bolshevism after Lenin: unitarian or trinitarian? |
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Bukharinism and Soviet socialism |
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Trotsky and Preobrazhensky |
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The emergence of a Stalinist model |
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“Like a cat avoiding hot porridge”: Stalin, Trotsky and “socialism in one country” |
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Soviet socialism and Stalin: theorizing self-sufficiency |
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Notes |
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PART THREE Orthodoxy in power: from Stalin to Brezhnev |
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CHAPTER SIX Stalinist socialism: creating a country of metal, 1929–39 |
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The great change: a country of metal, tractors and automobiles |
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Content and context |
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A centrally planned economy? |
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The organization of the economy |
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Management, labour and specialists |
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The collectivization of Soviet agriculture |
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Society and culture of Stalinism: socialism, nationalism, inequality |
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The social structure of Stalinist socialism: class struggle and inequality |
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The normative basis of Soviet socialism: nationalism, tradition, socialist realism and heroic individualism |
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The politics of Stalinism: party, state and society in the era of terror |
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The “ordinary” politics of the Stalin era |
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State and society |
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The Communist Party under Stalin |
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The “extraordinary” politics of Stalinism |
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Theoretical renewal under Stalin |
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Soviet socialism under Stalin 1929–41 |
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The economics of Soviet Stalinist “socialism” |
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Society and culture of Soviet Stalinist “socialism” |
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The politics of Soviet Stalinist “socialism” |
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Appendix: Stalinist “socialism” and the Soviet mode of production |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER SEVEN Khrushchev and Soviet socialism: burying Stalin, reviving Lenin? |
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Contextualizing the Khrushchev era: the theory and practice of mature Stalinism 1939–53 |
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The politics of Khrushchevism |
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The politics of Stalin’s death |
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The CPSU: renewing the Leninist vanguard? |
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State and society under Khrushchev: a withering away of the state? |
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Coercion, legality and the rule of law |
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The growth of public self-government |
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Socio-cultural developments: equality, atheism and peaceful co-existence |
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Equality and Khrushchev: the promotion of less inequality |
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The normative basis of socialism under Khrushchev |
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The economics of Khrushchevism |
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Khrushchev and Soviet agriculture |
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The structure of Soviet agriculture |
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The operation of Soviet agriculture: plant more, plough more, pay more |
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Khrushchev and Soviet industry |
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The structure and operation of the economy: sovnarkhozy and central planning under Khrushchev |
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Management and labour under Khrushchev: reviving the trade unions? |
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Ideological and theoretical renewal under Khrushchev |
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Socialism and communism, in the Third Party Programme |
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Khrushchev and Soviet socialism |
254 |
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The economics of Soviet socialism |
254 |
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The politics of Soviet socialism |
255 |
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Socio-cultural aspects of Soviet socialism |
255 |
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Notes |
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CHAPTER EIGHT Brezhnev and developed socialism: technocratic socialism in power |
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Introduction |
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The de-Khrushchevization of Soviet society 1964–71 |
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Developed Socialism and the practice of Soviet socialism |
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The economics of Developed Socialism |
268 |
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Agriculture under Developed Socialism |
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Industry under Developed Socialism |
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The politics of Developed Socialism |
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State, society and the individual |
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Society and culture of Developed Socialism |
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The normative basis of Developed Socialism: détente, militarism, Russian nationalism and nostalgia |
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Developed Socialism and the Soviet model |
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Postscript: Developed Socialism after Brezhnev |
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Notes |
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PART FOUR The demise of scientific socialism |
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CHAPTER NINE Gorbachev and Soviet socialism: The rise and fall of Humane Democratic Socialism |
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Introduction |
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Why a new concept of socialism? |
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Soviet socialism in transition: from Developed Socialism to Humane Democratic Socialism (via Developing Socialism) |
291 |
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The decline and fall of Developed Socialism |
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The theory and practice of perestroika |
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Perestroika and Developing Socialism |
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Humane Democratic Socialism: an emperor with no clothes? |
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Humane Democratic Socialism: the socialist vision |
304 |
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The economics of Humane Democratic Socialism |
306 |
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From central planning to the regulated market economy |
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From state ownership to a mixed economy: patterns of ownership and control |
309 |
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The politics of Humane Democratic Socialism |
310 |
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The CPSU under HDS: from vanguard to parliamentary party |
310 |
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Individual rights and state power under HDS |
312 |
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The socio-cultural sphere under HDS |
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The draft party programme of August 1991: the social-democratization of Bolshevism |
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Humane Democratic Socialism in historical perspective |
325 |
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Notes |
328 |
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Conclusion: history and Soviet socialism |
334 |
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Soviet socialism in historical perspective |
334 |
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Notes |
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Chronology of party conferences and congresses |
340 |
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Chronology of main ideological texts of Soviet socialism |
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Select bibliography |
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Index |
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