David Stuart Lane

The Rise and Fall of State Socialism

Industrial Society and the Socialist State

In this major new work, David Lane provides a wide-ranging re-evaluation of socialism as an ideology and a political movement. He addresses the nature...

Elites and Classes in the Transformation of State Socialism

The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. This may be an appropriate time to evaluate the adoption by previously s...

Berlusconi's Shadow

Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power

Silvio Berlusconi controls a vast business empire spanning TV, football and finance. He has also faced accusations of perjury, bribing judges and fals...

Politics and Society in the USSR

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Soviet Society Under Perestroika

This is an up-to-the-minute revised edition of a text which, since its publication in 1990, has been extremely influential. The great changes of the p...

Russia in Transition

Politics, Privatisation and Inequality

Lane and Cameron Ross...

The Socialist Industrial State

Towards a Political Sociology of State Socialism

Monograph on the political theory and social theory of communism, with particular reference to the USSR - covers the political ideology of Marxism-len...

Politics and Society in the U.S.S.R.

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Inequality Socialism and Sociology

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Soviet Industrial Worker

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Soviet Labour and the Ethic of Communism

Full Employment and the Labour Process in the USSR

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The Soviet Industrial Worker

Social Class, Education, and Control

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