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Author Yanowitch, Murray

Title Controversies in Soviet Social Thought : Democratization, Social Justice and the Erosion of Official Ideology
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (168 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Reformist Undercurrents in the Pre-Gorbachev Period; On ""Social Innovations""; ""Democratization"" and the New Technology; The Theme of ""Social Justice""; Social Psychology and Socially Desirable Values; 2. Toward ""Democratization"" of the Workplace; The Failure of Prereform Participatory Mechanisms; The Theme of Worker Alienation; Principal Justifications for ""Democratization""; A New Legal Framework and Managerial Elections; ""One-Man Management"" and Work Councils; Beyond the ""Electoral Model"" and Other Issues
3. The Democratization of Political DiscourseIn Defense of a Socialist ""Civil Society""; Reassessing ""Bourgeois Democracy""; Studying Public Opinion; On the Transition to Democracy; The Expanding Limits of Pluralism; Introduction to a Future Controversy; 4. The Issue of ""Social Justice""; For and Against ""Active Redistribution""; Toward the Implementation of Equal Access; Democracy, Property, and Inequality; 5. The Desanctification of Marxism-Leninism; Tsipko's Challenge: Stalinism and Marxism; Responses to Tsipko and Escalation of the Challenge; Social Democracy and Economic Liberalism
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Subject Perestroĭka.
Democratization -- Soviet Union
Democratization
Perestroĭka
Politics and government
Social conditions
Social policy
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Social policy
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004555
Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1970-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125857
Subject Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315491769
1315491761