Russia's leaders have flunked their doublethink lessons, according to Barrington Moore, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, of the Russian Research Center. In his new book, "Terror and Progress, USSR," Moore says that the Kremlin is trying to reconcile "the glow of official propaganda" with "daily experience for Soviet citizens" by resorting to "fairly typical bureaucratic cynicism."
In addition, there is no real economic dialectic, says Moore. The drive of Soviet Russia's industrial machine comes from the pressure of the Kremlin, backed by terror, and not from the nature of the economic system. The Communist structure depends on its leadership, and the leaders are using "trial-and-error methods."
Moore sees for them a choice between a retreat to traditional institutions, such as the family, or something like an Oriental despotism with its omnipresent bureaucratic apparatus.
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