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Ideas previously censored because of the challenge they posed both to traditional Marxism-Leninism and the political and economic foundations of the Soviet state became the subject of vigorous public discussion after 1985. This volume examines the officially-endorsed "New Political Thinking" and its origins. It also, however, ranges more widely to consider the scope and significance of novel ideas which have found their way into large-circulation Soviet publications, even though not all of them have been endorsed at the highest political levels.
Although concise, the book is also the most comprehensive analysis yet undertaken of new thinking in Soviet politics, embracing writing on the economy, the political system, the National Question, foreign policy and the future (if any) of world communism. The authors--Archie Brown, Alexander Dallin, Gail W. Lapidus, Alec Nove and T.H. Rigby--are among the best-known and most highly-regarded specialists on the Soviet Union in the Western world.