Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era : ideology and exchange

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Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era : ideology and exchange

Title remainder

ideology and exchange

Statement of responsibility

edited by Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky

Creator

• Fainberg, Dina

Contributor

• EBSCOhost
• Kalinovsky, Artemy M.

Editor

• Kalinovsky, Artemy M.

Subject

• Western countries -- Relations -- Soviet Union
• Political culture -- Soviet Union -- History
• Soviet Union -- Relations -- Western countries
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
• Ideology -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
• Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1965-1975
• Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982 -- Influence
• Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1975-1985
• Stagnation (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History
• Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982 -- Political and social views

Language

eng

Summary

This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state's attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.--

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non fiction

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• dictionaries
• bibliography

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