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Alfred Evans presents the first integrated analysis of Soviet Marxist-Leninist ideology from the founding of the U.S.S.R. to its recent collapse.

Table of Contents

Marx and the Stages of Communism
Lenin on Socialist Construction
The Consolidation of Stalinism
Mature Stalinism: Continuity Within Transition
Khrushchev: The Full-Scale Construction of Communism
Khrushchev: Social and Political Change
Brezhnev: The Stage of Developed Socialism
Social Structure and Social Transformation in Developed Socialism
The Socialist Way of Life
Gorbachev on Stagnation and Restructuring
The Hope of Reform: Socialist Pluralism
The Collapse of the Dream
Conclusion: The Revenge of Politics
Bibliography

About the Author

ALFRED B. EVANS, JR. is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fresno. He is the editor (with S. Woodby) of Restructuring Soviet Ideology: Gorbachev's New Thinking (1990).