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Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: Ideology and Exchange

Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: Ideology and Exchange

Autio-Sarasmo, Sari
Fainberg, Dina
Kalinovsky, Artemy M.

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceRussian History

ISBN10: 149852995X
ISBN13: 9781498529952
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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