A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed

by VladimirShlapentokh (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1997

  $58.73

  This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-Soviet decade. Without overlooking the USSR's repressive character, the author treats it as a normal system that employed socialist and nationalist ideologies.