The Soviet Union Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society [Hardcover]

The book?analyzes?Soviet society as a 'hard reality',?emphasizes?the varying perceptions of?it?in the Soviet Union and the US, and insists that, while?glorifications of?the Soviet?reality?have been useful, the most accurate descriptions of this?reality were?critical.Introduction to Rashomon's Tale: Perspectives on a Society from Within and from Without Thinkers from Overseas: How Did Western Experts Understand and Describe the Soviet Union over its 74-year History? Homegrown Russian Intellectuals: On the Existence of Credible and Unreliable Internal Sources of Elite Information about Soviet Realities A Mirror from Afar:?American Public Opinion about the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1980s Self-fulfilling Reflections: Soviet Public Opinion about the Homeland, in Attitudes and Images Conclusion and Discussion:?Limits and Potentials to De-ideologizing Studies of Foreign Countries, and Reconstructing Images of a Society Held by its Denizens
ERIC SHIRAEV?is a a Political Psychologist at George Mason University, USA.?
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EERO CARROLL?has held post-doctoral appointments at SOFI, Stockholm University (1999-2006), the National Institute for Working Life (2006-07) and the Institute for Futures Studies (2007-08), all in Stockholm, Sweden.

VLADIMIR SHLAPENTOKH is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA.