Chapter 1 Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR

Chapter 2 The End of Ideology in the Soviet Union

Chapter 3 Political Economy of the Disintegration of the USSR

Chapter 4 Social Structure, Social Change and the Soviet Working Class: Changes in Theoretical Perspective from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

Chapter 5 Perestroika, Social Justice and Public Opinion

Chapter 6 Discourse, Ideology and Party Formation on the Democratic Left in the USSR

Chapter 8 The Historical Controversy on the Polish Question in the Revolutionary Movement from Marx to Lenin

Chapter 9 The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956–90

Chapter 10 Crises, Contradictions and East Europe: Soviet Theoretical Debates on Reform on the Eve of Perestroika

Chapter 11 Officialese and Straight Talk in Socialist Europe of the 1980s

Chapter 12 Preparing for Renaissance: Philosophy, Ideology and the History of Philosophy in the USSR

Chapter 13 The Sparta-Athens Dichotomy of Fifth-Century B.C. Greece in Recent Soviet Research

Chapter 14 Some Conclusions On New Beginnings