ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1969 and representing a quarter of a century’s work of one of the USA’s most respected scholars in Soviet affairs, this volume discusses the question of what happens to an ideology in power, by focusing on the evolution and uses of Marxism in Soviet practice. As well as analyzing totalitarian behaviour, the author offers advice for Western policy from analysis of the past.

part I|89 pages

The Ideology: From Marxism to Marxism-Leninism

part II|59 pages

War as the Womb of Revolution

chapter I|11 pages

War Comes To Russia *

chapter II|15 pages

War Comes To Russia-In-Exile *

chapter III|19 pages

Titans Locked in Combat *

part III|78 pages

Permanent Dictatorship and the Problem of Legitimacy

chapter I|11 pages

Society and the State *

chapter IV|16 pages

The Struggle for the Succession *

chapter V|13 pages

The Age of the Diminishing Dictators *

part IV|40 pages

Proletarian Dictatorship as a Higher Form of Democracy*

chapter I|13 pages

Prometheus Bound *

chapter II|10 pages

The Dark Side of the Moon *

chapter IV|9 pages

Elections Under the Dictatorship *

part V|73 pages

The Conditioning of Culture

chapter II|19 pages

Party Histories From Lenin to Khrushchev *

chapter III|16 pages

Science Joins the Party *

chapter IV|8 pages

Culture and Communist Criticism *

chapter V|3 pages

Some Wonders of the Russian Tongue *

chapter VI|5 pages

The Great Blackout *

part VI|52 pages

Problems of Foreign Policy