New Worldviews at the Soviet Collapse and Transition

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23 février 2020

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bmenzel, « New Worldviews at the Soviet Collapse and Transition », New religious cultures in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, ID : 10670/1.dd931t


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by Joseph Kellner At the twilight of Marxism-Leninism, some Soviet citizens, mostly of the educated urban middle class, accepted Western-style liberal democracy and capitalism as the only worldview still worthy of the name. Many of their peers – likewise educated, urban, middle class – instead trained as astrologers or hypnotists, or sang Hare Krishna and sold the Bhagavad Gita in the streets, or fled a coming apocalypse or anticipated a coming utopia, or sought salvation in a regimen of ic...

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