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This outstanding book deals with the Soviet model as a distinctive pattern of modernity. Its historical background and its institutional structure are thoroughly examined as are its implications for understanding Modernity. The book challenges many of the simple assumptions and judgements made about the Soviet road. It is essential reading for students of Political Science, Sociology and Soviet History

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This book is an analysis of the historical significance of the Soviet model by a social theorist influenced by Max Weber and the Budapest School of revisionist Marxism. Arnason summarizes the Russian historical tradition and the Leninist response. He then analyzes the structural features of the Soviet model (without much empirical grounding) and its global impact, especially in China. The final pages discuss the reasons for the system's collapse. The author's analysis of the USSR as a flawed response to modernity is persuasive but not original. For student purposes the most useful introduction to these issues is still Theodore von Laue's Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev? (3rd ed., 1993).