Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Society
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Society gathers together 27 previously out-of-print titles from our classic backlist to form an important reference collection on the many aspects of society in the Soviet Union. The power of the state infiltrated all aspects of life under Soviet authority, and these books collected here examine schools and education, family life and marriage, social inequality and mobility, race relations, healthcare, the legal system, the arts and literature, religion, gender and other topics besides.
A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum: What the Russian Child is Taught in School
1st Edition
By James Muckle
January 19, 2026
A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (1988) surveys the syllabuses for schoolchildren in the Soviet education system following the reforms of 1984. Every subject in the common timetable is covered, and teaching methods, hopes for the future and continuing controversies are discussed. All this is set in...
An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System
1st Edition
By E.L. Johnson
January 19, 2026
An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System (1969) sets the main features of modern Soviet law against their background in Russian legal history and Marxist political thought. Important constitutional provisions are examined in detail and their value in practice considered. In the second part of the...
Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror
1st Edition
Edited
By John Keep
January 19, 2026
Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror (1964) is devoted to a critical examination of Soviet writings on contemporary history. The demands of the Communist Party, striving following the death of Stalin to replace the old myths with new ones, encountered the opposition of individual historians. ...
De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953–1989
1st Edition
By Anne White
January 19, 2026
De-Stalinization and the House of Culture (1990) looks at the houses of culture – arts centres which in the Stalinist period functioned as agencies of political socialisation – and the changes in their character and functions since Stalin’s death. This book explores the diminishing control of the ...
Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Gustav A. Wetter
January 19, 2026
Dialectical Materialism (1958) surveys the history of dialectical materialism from its Hegelian beginnings to the death of Stalin, and its sequel in the celebrated XXth Party Congress of the C.P.S.U. It also presents a systematic account of the theory as it was formulated and discussed by the ...
Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspective from Below
1st Edition
By Rasma Karklins
January 19, 2026
Ethnic Relations in the USSR (1986) focuses on popular ethnic attitudes and behaviour among the various nations and nationalities of the Soviet Union. Ethnicity matters not only in Soviet high politics and in economic and cultural planning, but is also a dominant force in the daily lives of many ...
Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Michael Kaser
January 19, 2026
Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Many enjoyed comprehensive free health care, established with the Communist takeovers and transition to planned economies, as they moved from an agrarian to ...
Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union: Field Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Dragadze
January 19, 2026
Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union (1984) presents articles by established Soviet anthropologists, writing on kinship and marriage in the countries of the USSR. They represent all the main Soviet regions and display the way in which scholars handle their data within a particular theoretical ...
Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law
1st Edition
By R.W. Makepeace
January 19, 2026
Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the ways in which the theory of Marx has changed and been changed, through the lens of criminal law- the major way in which social controls are exercised by the State....
Music Under the Soviets: The Agony of an Art
1st Edition
By Andrey Olkhovsky
January 19, 2026
Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West. As the musical practice under the Soviet totalitarian dictatorship, it should be viewed as the musical policy of that regime, a policy which ...
Russian Theater: From the Empire to the Soviets
1st Edition
By Marc Slonim
January 19, 2026
Russian Theater (1963) is a comprehensive study of the main trends in Russian theatre in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning with its origins in pagan folklore and ritual, it goes on to consider the romantic drama which flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, the ...
Science Policy in the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Stephen Fortescue
January 19, 2026
Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR. The book adopts the widespread view that Soviet science performs well below capacity and then looks at the institutions and management in the light of this...