Soviet Civilization
{{Short description|2001 collection of writings by Sergei Kara-Murza}}
{{Infobox book |
| name = Soviet civilization
| title_orig = {{langx|ru|Советская цивилизация}}
| author = Sergei Kara-Murza
| country = Russia
| language = Russian
| publisher = Algoritm
| release_date = 2001
| english_release_date =
| media_type = Print (hardback)
}}
Soviet Civilization ({{langx|ru|Советская цивилизация}}) is a 2001 collection of writings by Russian author Sergei Kara-Murza.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_2ZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|title=Eurasian Integration and the Russian World: Regionalism as an Identitiary Enterprise|first=Aliaksei|last=Kazharski|date=April 10, 2019|publisher=Central European University Press|via=Google Books}} This book is a bestseller.{{Cite journal|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/k-voprosu-o-prichinah-raspada-soyuza-ssr-s-tochki-zreniya-klassovoy-teorii-gosudarstva|title=К ВОПРОСУ О ПРИЧИНАХ РАСПАДА СОЮЗА ССР С ТОЧКИ ЗРЕНИЯ КЛАССОВОЙ ТЕОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВА|first=Зуев|last=Ю.ф|date=January 5, 2018|journal=Актуальные проблемы гуманитарных и естественных наук|issue=3|pages=32–39|via=cyberleninka.ru}}{{Cite web|url=https://urss.ru/cgi-bin/db.pl?lang=Ru&blang=ru&page=Book&id=216620|title=Кара-Мурза С., Осипов Г. / СССР - цивилизация будущего. Инновации Сталина|website=urss.ru}}
The book was included by Eksmo Publishing House in the book series “Classics of Russian Thought”.{{Cite web|url=https://webkamerton.ru/user/615|title=Сергей КАРА-МУРЗА|website=webkamerton.ru}}https://www.hse.ru/data/2015/04/20/1095611717/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%E2%84%96%206.pdf{{Cite web|url=https://www.directmedia.ru/author_15730_kara_murza_s_g_/|title=Кара-Мурза Сергей Георгиевич|website=www.directmedia.ru}}
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the book has gone through several reprints.{{Cite journal|url=https://wuwr.pl/fsoc/article/view/5796/5474|title=Naśladownictwo vs wyjątkowość: wybrane cechy cywilizacji radzieckiej w dziele Siergieja Kara-Murzy|first=Kateryna|last=Novikova|date=December 31, 2014|journal=Forum Socjologiczne|volume=5|pages=107–122|via=wuwr.pl}}
The author himself considered it his best work.
The book is permeated with anti-Western sentiments and bitterness over the collapse of the “Soviet [social] order”.
The author criticizes elements of Eurocentrism in Lenin's thought.