TY  - GEN
T1  - Roads to the temple : truth, memory, ideas, and ideals in the making of the Russian revolution, 1987-1991
A1  - Aron, Leon Rabinovich
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn828617164
AB  - 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.
CN  - DK286 .A76 2012eb
SN  - 9780300183245
SN  - 0300183240
SN  - 0300118449
SN  - 9780300118445
SN  - 9781280770357
SN  - 128077035X
KW  - Glasnost.
KW  - Social action : Soviet Union.
KW  - Social change : Soviet Union.
KW  - Values : Soviet Union.
KW  - Collective memory : Soviet Union.
KW  - Soviet Union : History : 1985-1991.
KW  - Soviet Union : Moral conditions.
KW  - Soviet Union : Intellectual life : 1970-1991.
KW  - Action sociale : URSS.
KW  - Mémoire collective : URSS.
KW  - URSS : Histoire : 1985-1991.
KW  - URSS : Vie intellectuelle : 1970-1991.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Ideologies : Democracy.
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Glasnost
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Social action
KW  - Social change
KW  - Values
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Zusammenbruch
KW  - Vorgeschichte
KW  - Perestroika
KW  - Geistesleben
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - 1970-1991
KW  - History
ER  -