Ideology and Soviet economic policy

David A. Dyker

pp. 114-135

in: Stephen K. White, Alex Pravda (eds), Ideology and Soviet politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1988

Abstract

Any attempt to evaluate the impact of Marxism-Leninism on policy response must recognise that ideological and pragmatic concerns need not be distinct, but may overlap and intertwine with one another, often in subtle ways … To label alternatives and arguments as either ideological or pragmatic is usually a gross over-simplification, for values are rarely, if ever, neatly separated from practical responses to problematic situations.¹

Cited authors

Marx Karl