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Roads to the Temple
Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991
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Roads to the Temple
Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991
About this book
Leon Aron considers the "mystery of the Soviet collapse" and finds answers in the intellectual and moral self-scrutiny of glasnost that brought about a profound shift in values. Reviewing the entire output of the key glasnost outlets in 1987-1991, he elucidates and documents key themes in this national soul-searching and the "ultimate" questions that sparked moral awakening of a great nation: "Who are we? How do we live honorably? What is a dignified relationship between man and state? How do we atone for the moral breakdown of Stalinism?"
Contributing both to the theory of revolutions and history of ideas, Aron presents a thorough and original narrative about new ideas' dissemination through the various media of the former Soviet Union. Aron shows how, reaching every corner of the nation, these ideas destroyed the moral foundation of the Soviet state, de-legitimized it and made its collapse inevitable.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Revolutions, Ideas, and the End of the Soviet Union
- 1. The “Mystery” of the Soviet Collapse and the Theory of Revolutions
- 2. For Truth and Goodness: The Credos of Glasnost
- Part Two: Кto Mы? Who are We?
- 3. Inside the “Deafened Zone”
- 4. In Search of History
- 5. “The Innocent, the Slandered, the Exterminated”
- 6. The Peasant Hecatomb
- 7. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, I: Food, Housing, Medical Care, the “Golden Childhood,” and the Standard of Living
- 8. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, II: Progress, the “State of Workers and Peasants,” Equality, “Freedom from Exploitation,” Novocherkassk
- 9. The Unraveling of the Legitimizing Myths, III: The Great Patriotic War
- 10. The “Immoral” Economy
- 11. The “Disintegration of Souls”: Homo Sovieticus
- Part Three: Кto Bиhobat? Who Is to Blame?
- 12. The House That Stalin Built: The Master State and its Political Economy
- 13. “De-individualization,” the “Original Sin,” and the Nationalization of Conscience
- Part Four: Чto Дeлatь? What Is to Be Done?
- 14. Stalin, Memory, Repentance, Atonement
- 15. The “Spirit of Freedom” and the Power of Nyet
- 16. The Freedom Canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman
- 17. In Man’s Image, I: “Privatizing” the State and Economy
- 18. In Man’s Image, II: The Empire, the “Garrison State,” and the World
- Epilogue
- Glasnost’s Signposts: The Themes and the Texts
- Glasnost’s Troubadours
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index