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Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union


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A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union. —Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction 3 Part 2 Before: Information Criminal 9 Part 3 Information Control and the Soviet Crisis 43 Part 4 What Price Socialism? An Economy Without Information 75 Part 5 The KGB, Father of Perestroika 99 Part 6 The Press and the Restoration of History 121 Part 7 Television and the Revival of Politics Part 8 A Normal Country: The Pop Culture Explosion 182 Part 9 Letting Go of the Leninist Faith 212 Part 10 After: The Coup-Proof Society 245 Part 11 Epilogue 276 Part 12 Acknowledgments 291 Part 13 Notes 293 Part 14 Index 305

About the Author :
Scott Shane was the Baltimore Sun’s Moscow correspondent from 1988 to 1991. A graduate of Williams College and Oxford University, he also studied at Leningrad State University. He is now a special project reporter for the Sun and lives in Baltimore.

Review :
Accessible and absorbing. Well documented...a readable account. Convincing and powerful. Shane's book is reportage at its bestóan insightful blend of anecdote, observation, biographical sketch, statistics, and history. This is a vivid, first-class eyewitness description and analysis of the sudden demise of Soviet communism. A critical book to understanding the era...Scott Shane tells the story of the way the modern information age helped destroy the last pillars of communism, and he tells it with grace, sympathy, and intelligence.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781566630993
  • Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Ivan R Dee, Inc
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 335
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 395 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1566630991
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 1995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
  • Width: 142 mm


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