Three decades ago, Andrei Amalrik described the ‘wheel of ideologies’ that structured underground political debate in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union. In the ideological vacuum left after communism, writes Peter Rutland, that wheel has been replaced by a confused plurality of political views in which the pursuit of power is the dominant principle.
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