A pinnacle of Russia’s achievement (one of the world’s two superpowers)		A conservative and inflexible socio-economic system geared to the technological level of the 1920s and 1930s
	The high point of state socialism in Russia		Soviet legitimising doctrines, institutions, and decision-making procedures became hopelessly outdated
	A modern society (in terms of occupational composition and educational level)		The population wanted to be treated as consumers rather than “builders of communism”

 

 

 

                                                              Copyrighted material