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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|89 pages
The Ideology: From Marxism to Marxism-Leninism
part II|59 pages
War as the Womb of Revolution
part III|78 pages
Permanent Dictatorship and the Problem of Legitimacy
part IV|40 pages
Proletarian Dictatorship as a Higher Form of Democracy*
part V|73 pages
The Conditioning of Culture
part VI|52 pages
Problems of Foreign Policy