Mono-ideology

Mono-ideologies (Russian: моноидеологии, romanized: monoideologii, singular: моноидеология) are a type of ideology in Russian political and philosophical discourse.

Mono-ideologies have been described as fundamentally being linked to totalitarianism and to Millenarianism. A totalitarian political system requires an equally total mono-ideology. It can be built on various grounds: nationalist, class, but in any case, it performs two main functions - legitimizing the power of the party or state, and mobilizing the masses. The concept sees political (party) monism as paralleling ideological monism.

Alexander Yakovlev (1923-2005) criticized mono-ideologies in 1993. He was called the "godfather of glasnost" for his role as the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform program of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.

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