Petre Petrov

What Was Soviet Ideology? (eBook, ePUB)

A Theoretical Inquiry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Because the Soviet Union loudly proclaimed to be an ideological state, its scholars have rarely scrutinized ideology as a concept. Instead, they have treated it as a self-evident fact and proceeded to deliberate the importance of the Marxist-Leninist creed in social life or political decision-making. In the context of the Cold War, such theoretical neglect was exacerbated by political investments that often outweighed-and deformed-intellectual priorities. This has left us today with a notion that is both worn out and opaque, over-used but under-thought. In What Was Soviet Ideology? Petre Petrov stakes a new theoretical ground beyond prevalent misconceptions, ready-made definitions, and popular stereotypes. Drawing on continental philosophy and critical theory, this book presents ideology as a dynamic form with its own inner dialectic, in which the Soviet ideological regime figures as an original moment, a sui generis phenomenon. Petrov argues that Soviet ideology should be seen not as a member of an existing species but as a qualitative transformation of the species, ideology, and itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666937381
• Artikelnr.: 68619905

Autorenporträt

Petre Petrov has taught at Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Automatic for the Masses: The Death of the Author and the Birth of Socialist Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: What Makes Ideology Ideological?
Chapter 2: The Three Logics of Ideology
Chapter 3: The Ontological Truth of Ideology
Chapter 4: The Production of Ideology
Chapter 5: The Show of Civilization
Chapter 6: The Economy of Tokens
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author