Abstract
It was new ways of thinking about Russia’s and the world’s problems, and the paths to their resolution, that ushered in the bureaucratic dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party, with all its fateful domestic and international consequences, and now it is new ways of thinking about these matters that is ushering it out. In both cases, moreover, the new ways of thinking were personified in a ‘transformational’ leadership,1 operating in a context of mounting socioeconomic and political crisis, and offering a path away from poverty, backwardness, tyranny, obscurantism and war.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
See Noel M. Tichy and Mary A. Devanna, The Transformational Leader (New York: Wiley, 1986).
See T. H. Rigby, The Changing Soviet System. Mono-organisational Socialism from its Origins to Gorbachev’s Perestroika (Aldershot: Elgar, 1990)
Further on the ‘counter-(or second) culture’ and its significance, see Geoffrey Hosking, The Awakening of the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990)
T. H. Rigby, ‘Mono-organisational Socialism and the Civil Society’, in David W. Lovell and Chandran Kukathas, The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in Gorbachev’s USSR (London: Longman, 1991).
S. V. Kolesnikov et al., Knizhka partiynogo aktivista: 1990 (Moscow: Politizdat, 1990), pp. 201–12.
This point is emphasized from differing perspectives in Robert F. Miller, Soviet Foreign Policy Today (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991)
V. Kubalkova and A. A. Cruickshank, Thinking about Soviet New Thinking (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1989)
Michael MccGwire, Perestroika and Soviet National Security (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1990).
For an excellent survey, see Tamara V. Samsonova, Perestrojka der Ethik und Ethik der Perestrojka (Cologne: Federal Institute of East-European and International Studies, Report no. 30, 1990).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1992 Archie Brown
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rigby, T.H. (1992). Some Concluding Observations. In: Brown, A. (eds) New Thinking in Soviet Politics. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21897-4_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21897-4_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-53440-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-21897-4
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)