1st Edition

Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia

By Philip Boobbyer Copyright 2005
296 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the moral universe of Stalin's time explores the history of the moral thinking of the dissident... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Russian Moral Traditions before 1917  3. Tension and Change in Revolutionary Ethics  4. Moral Experience under Stalin  5. The Rebirth of Conscience under Khrushchev  6. The Ethics of the Human Rights Movement  7. In Search of Inner Freedom  8. Dialogue and Division in the Dissident Movement  9. Conscience in Literature  10. Moral Aspects of In-System Dissent  11. The Ethics of the Party Reformers  12. Conscience and Repentance during Glasnost  13. The Democratic Movement and its Dilemmas  14. Conclusion

Biography

Philip Boobbyer