Khrushchev remembered

KHRUSHCHEV'S innovative energy was one of the outstanding features of his leadership. And one of the areas in which he generated interesting and at least potentially significant new thought was that of the nature and future of the Soviet state itself. Although he was certainly not a theorist, even by Soviet standards, he did open up to discussion one of the most sensitive of all Soviet theoretical questions, that of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' and its transition to 'communism'. There was, of course, the tradition of extending the ideology as new 'stages' of history are reached and the peculiarly Soviet need to justify practical change in ideological terms. Indeed, one may even refer to a built-in compulsion shared by all Soviet leaders to demonstrate continuous progress towards the goal of communism. But how original was Khrushchev after all? Was it simply a matter of style, or did he really change the Soviet system and the ideology which justifies it

Political science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Soviet and Russian History

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