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Review Essays : Soviet Social Thought in the Period of Stagnation ANATOLY M. KHAZANOV University of Wisconsin-Madison Ernest Gellner,State and Society in Soviet Thought. Blackwell,Oxford,1988. Pp. x,193,$39.95. I am inclined to consider the reports of the death of Marxist faith to be somewhat exaggerated,at least as far as the Soviet Union is concerned. —Ernest Gellner (1988) Marxism-Leninism should be dismantled. It calls us back into the XIXth century,while the XXth century is ending in our yard. —Yuri Afanasiev (1989