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Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915
In: Labor: studies in working-class history of the Americas, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 108-109
ISSN: 1558-1454
BOOK REVIEWS: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation by Dmitry P. Gorenburg
In: Democratization, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 177
ISSN: 1351-0347
Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation
In: Democratization, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 177-178
ISSN: 1351-0347
The Reincarnation of Russia. Struggling with the Legacy of Communism, 1990-1994
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 908-909
ISSN: 0966-8136
Secret empire: the KGB in Russia today
In: International affairs, Band 72, Heft 2, S. 406-407
ISSN: 1468-2346
Thinking about Ideology and Method: A Comment on Schull
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 333-342
ISSN: 1467-9248
This article addresses some theoretical problems which arise in a recent article by Joseph Schull on ideology and Soviet-type societies. I argue that the conceptualizations of Marxism-Leninism, ideology, and discourse offered by Schull are unlikely to enhance the study of Soviet ideological practices significantly because Schull's approach is both too essentialist and too general. Schull treats these concepts as unities reducible through proper definition. I argue that they are better understood as problematics which, in the first two cases, encompass a wide variety of forms and practices; and, in the third, a variety of methods and approaches. Since the study of Marxism-Leninism or ideology, like anything else, is driven by questions, problems, hypotheses, etc., I suggest that it is unhelpful to engage in a priori generalizations about method.
Thinking about: Ideology and Method: A Comment on Schull
In: Political studies, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 333-342
ISSN: 0032-3217
Six Years that Shook the World: Perestroika - the Impossible Project
In: Political studies, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 726
ISSN: 0032-3217
Beyond Stalinism: communist political evolution
In: International affairs, Band 69, Heft 3, S. 607-607
ISSN: 1468-2346
Russia in flux: the political and social consequences of reform
In: International affairs, Band 69, Heft 3, S. 606-607
ISSN: 1468-2346
What went wrong with perestroika
In: International affairs, Band 68, Heft 4, S. 767-768
ISSN: 1468-2346
The glasnost papers: voices on reform from Moscow
In: International affairs, Band 67, Heft 4, S. 820-820
ISSN: 1468-2346
Marxism–Leninism as Discourse: The Politics of the Empty Signifier and the Double Bind
In: British journal of political science, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 161-189
ISSN: 1469-2112
This article employs a semiotic approach to investigate the meaning of 'Marxism-Leninism' with a view to clarifying our understanding of this term. Contrary to conventional interpretations it demonstrates that 'Marxism-Leninism' is an empty signifier which is subject to definition on a contemporary basis by the CPSU itself. However, it also demonstrates that 'Marxism-Leninism' is the central element in a mechanism of control which bears all the hallmarks of a classic linguistic double bind. It therefore concludes that while 'Marxism-Leninism' is referentially open to re-definition it is connotatively attached to the practices of the CPSU. It is both fixed and not fixed in meaning.The resulting analysis leads to a critique of terms which are conventionally taken for granted by Sovietologists and introduces a new methodological approach to the study of 'Marxism-Leninism'.
Claude Lefort on the dialectic of twentieth‐century politics
In: The journal of communist studies, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 99-102