Homeland of the Unrevolution

Homeland of the Unrevolution

The collapse of the USSR is assessed. The moral order of the USSR is discussed in terms of the ways that Marxism filled a void in 1945. The events of 1989 and its sequels suggest that industrial society cannot be run on total faith or on the political imposition of rightousness either. However, the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 1993-06, Vol.122 (3), p.141-153
1. Verfasser: Gellner, Ernest
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cold War
Communism
Faith
Feudalism
Governmental reform
History
Marxian economics
Marxism
Nationalism
Nationalism and communism
Nazism
Political aspects
Political change
Political systems
Political Theory
Politics
Post-communist societies
Religion
Respect
Social Change
Social order
Social Systems
Socialism
Sociology
U.S.S.R
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSR
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Zusammenfassung:The collapse of the USSR is assessed. The moral order of the USSR is discussed in terms of the ways that Marxism filled a void in 1945. The events of 1989 and its sequels suggest that industrial society cannot be run on total faith or on the political imposition of rightousness either. However, the vacuum left behind by the collapse of communism is unique and needs to be properly understood and mitigated.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192