Culture, Ideology and Personality: Robert C. Tucker's Analysis of Stalinism and Soviet Politics

Welch, S.E.

doi:10.1080/13523279608415299

Culture, Ideology and Personality: Robert C. Tucker's Analysis of Stalinism and Soviet Politics

Welch, S.E.

Authors

Dr Stephen Welch s.e.welch@durham.ac.uk

Abstract

Robert C. Tucker's contributions to Soviet studies have not only been various and fundamental, but also methodologically innovative. This essay seeks to make an overall assessment of Tucker's Sovietological work to date, concentrating mainly on questions of methodology and theory. It identifies three main themes of that work -culture, ideology and personality - and seeks both to assess the theoretical and in several cases extra-disciplinary foundations of each theme and to examine their mutual relationship. In both of these respects it argues that there are some unresolved difficulties in Tucker's approach, mainly having to do with explanatory scope.

Citation

Welch, S. (1996). Culture, Ideology and Personality: Robert C. Tucker's Analysis of Stalinism and Soviet Politics. The journal of communist studies and transition politics, 12(1), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279608415299

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Mar 1, 1996
Deposit Date	Mar 16, 2009
Journal	Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics
Print ISSN	1352-3279
Electronic ISSN	1743-9116
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	12
Issue	1
Pages	1-37
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279608415299