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The Concept of ‘Ideological Struggle’: Some Soviet Interpretations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Andrus Pork
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IT IS NOW OFTEN SAID THAT THE MODERN WORLD IS interdependent, that there is an intensive interaction of military, political, economic and other factors in the world. There is no doubt that one of the most important aspects of this interaction process is the international flow of information, and that political ideas have a special place in that exchange of information.

What follows is an attempt to look at some phases in the development of the Soviet perception of Western non-socialist political ideas over the past few years. As is generally known, Soviet ideologists have often emphasized the need for ideological struggle against these non-Marxist, bourgeois political ideas, and they continue to do this even in the present period of perestroika. At the same time it is obvious that major changes are taking place in Soviet political thought.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1989 , pp. 283 - 293
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1989

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