Ideology and System Change in the USSR and East Europe

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Problem of Ideology and The Question of Change in Soviet-Type Systems; M.E.Urban - PART 1 IDEOLOGY, CONFLICT AND CHANGE IN THE USSR - Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR; R.Walker - The End of Ideology in the Soviet Union; J.R.Ozluga - Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR; H.H.Ticktin - Social Structure, Social Change, and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective From Brezhnev to Gorbachev; A.Evans,Jr - Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion; D.S.Mason & S.Sydorenko - Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR; M.E.Urban & J.McClure - Ideology, Postcommunist Values and the Environment; C.E.Ziegler - PART 2 NATIONALISM, SOCIALISM AND CRISIS IN EAST EUROPE - The Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin; F.Tych - The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956-1990; R.Taras - Crisis, Contradictions and Eastern Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika; J.C.Valdez - Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the Eighties; P.Seriot - PART 3 PERESTROIKA AND THE HUMANITIES IN THE USSR - Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR; E.van der Zweerde - The Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Recent Soviet Research; W.Z.Rubinsohn - Some Conclusions on New Beginnings; M.E.Urban - Index