Conscience Dissent And Reform In Soviet Russia

Philip Boobbyer

Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2005 - History - 282 pages

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 intelligentsia
• examines the moral dimension of Soviet dissent amongst dissidents of both religious and secular persuasions, and includes biographical material
• explores the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era, firstly amongst Communist leaders, and then in the emerging democratic and national forces.

About the author

Philip Boobbyer is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is author of S.L. Frank: the Life and Work of a Russian Philosopher, 1877-1950 (Ohio University Press, 1995).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Conscience Dissent And Reform In Soviet Russia; Volume 21 of BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies
• Author: Philip Boobbyer
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2005
• ISBN: 0415331862, 9780415331869
• Length: 282 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political Science / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural