Author: Joan Debardeleben
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1000301052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the past two decades, environmental pollution and natural resource shortages have evoked increasing concern in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The emerging ecological crisis has challenged many common assumptions in the Soviet bloc, as in the West. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the ecology debate in the USSR and its highly industrialized ally, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Based on a thorough examination of the Soviet and GDR sources, Dr. DeBardeleben explores the authorities' attempts to explain the problem to their populations. She also examines the viewpoints of scientists, writers, and scholars, with special attention to economic dimensions of the ecology debate. The study reveals the increasing sophistication of specialists in influencing public policy by adapting official values to support their positions. Through comparison of the Soviet and East German cases, the study clarifies the impact of natural resource endowment and legitimacy dilemmas on treatment of the ecology issue. The book demonstrates that Marxist-Leninist values subtly affect Soviet and GDR responses, but at the same time the environmental crisis is forcing a reevaluation of some aspects of Marxist-Leninist theory and ideology itself.
Author: Alfred B. Evans
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1993-10-30
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0313390908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study examines the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the U.S.S.R. from its origins to the collapse of the Soviet regime. Alfred Evans argues that Soviet Marxism-Leninism was subject to significant adaptation under various leaders, contrary to the widespread impression that official Soviet ideology remained static after Stalin. While taking account of scholarly literature on each of the periods covered, the work is significant for being based principally on an analysis of primary (Soviet) sources. Evans' integrated analysis of changes in ideology during the post-Stalin decades is an important contribution to the literature in political science, political economy, and Soviet studies.
Author: V. Kubalkova
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1317369246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Refuting the assumption that orthodox Marxist theory contains anything of relevance on international relations, this book, originally published in 1980, clarifies, reconstructs, and summarizes the theories of international relations of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet leadership of the 1970s. These are subjected to a comparative analysis and their relative integrity is examined both against one another and against selected Western theories. Marxist-Leninist models of international relations are fully explored, enabling the reader to appreciate the essence and evolution of fundamental Soviet concepts as such as proletarian, socialist internationalism, peaceful co-existence, national liberation movement and détente.
Author: J. V. Stalin
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 1932
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 1794775293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert V. Daniels
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 1611680581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.
Author: A. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-08-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0230554407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia , distinguished specialists chart the rise of new thinking on the Soviet system and the decline and fall of Marxism-Leninism in the late Soviet period. They also discuss the failure of Marxism-Leninism to make a comeback in post-Soviet Russia. This book makes a significant contribution to understanding the independent importance of ideas in politics and provides clear analyses of the rise of liberal and social democratic thought about the political system, the economy, international Communism, nationalism and federalism.