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Author Boobbyer, Philip

Title Conscience, dissent and reform in Soviet Russia / Philip Boobbyer
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages)
Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 21
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 21.
Contents Russian moral traditions before 1917 -- Tension and change in revolutionary ethics -- Moral experience under Stalin -- The rebirth of conscience under Khrushchev -- The ethics of the human rights movement -- In search of inner freedom -- Dialogue and division in the dissident movement -- Conscience in literature -- Moral aspects of in-system dissent -- The ethics of the party reformers -- Conscience and repentance during glasnost' -- The democratic movement and its dilemmas
Summary This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin's Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the moral universe of Stalin's timeexplores the history of the moral thinking of the dissident intelligentsiaexamines the moral dimension of Soviet dissent amongst dissidents of both religious and secular persuasions, and includes biographical material explores the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era, f
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Political culture -- Soviet Union
Conduct of life.
Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Social reformers -- Soviet Union
Revolutionaries -- Soviet Union.
Social sciences and ethics -- Soviet Union
ethics (philosophical concept)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Conduct of life
Dissenters
Intellectual life
Moral conditions
Political culture
Politics and government
Revolutionaries
Social reformers
Social sciences and ethics
Geistesleben
Gesellschaft
Politik
Dissident
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Moral conditions
Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1970-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125828
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125849
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004555
Subject Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317571223
1317571223
9780203398036
0203398033
1317571215
9781317571216