General Information

Author/Creator

Valdez, Jonathan C.

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Physical Description

x, 214 p. ; 24 cm.

Series

Soviet and East European studies ; 89

Contents/Summary

Summary

Jonathan Valdez explores the role of ideology in the maintenance and subsequent collapse of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. He looks at how Marxism-Leninism was used to legitimize Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, to rationalize policy decisions, to communicate Soviet intent and policy desires to East European elites, and to explain change in socialist systems. The author argues that the use of the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism to perform various functions ultimately brought about a change in the basic assumptions of the theory itself.

Subjects

Subject

Ideology.

Communism > Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1945-1989.

Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Jonathan C. Valdez.

Content

1. Ideology and the ideologists -- 2. The ideological basis -- 3. Contradictions and internationalism in the 1970s: the Euro-communist challenge -- 4. Socialist internationalism, 1980-1989: decline of a concept -- 5. Socialism redefined -- 6. Ideological debates and Eastern Europe.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0521414385

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	327.47 VAL		OSA Repository	-

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