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Stalinist Legacy Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics (Second Edition)

Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781608462193
Publisert
2013-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Haymarket Books
Vekt
578 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
554

Forfatter
Ali, Tariq

Biographical note

TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.

Stalinist Legacy Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics (Second Edition)

Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
Ali, Tariq
Heftet / 2013 / Engelsk
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Marx once wrote that history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.' Perhaps he did not know how right he would be. Even twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse, activists are still confronted by the legacy of Communism, particularly in regards to Stalinism. Tariq Ali's The Stalinist Legacy aims to deepen understanding of the origins, impacts and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. Edited by Tariq Ali, author of The Obama Syndrome (Verso, 2011) and editor of the New Left Review.'
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Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.
Preface Introduction to new edition Introduction to the first edition Part 1: The Roots of the Problem 1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky 2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky 3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel 4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher 5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher 6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson 7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman 8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis 9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.' 10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin 11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al. 12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev 13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew 14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset 15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran 16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso 17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky 18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa 19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald 20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko
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Tariq Ali available for interview from London Advertising in Progressive, Nation, and New Left Review Promotion on Tariq Ali's website, www.tariqali.org

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Marx once wrote that history weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.' Perhaps he did not know how right he would be. Even twenty years after the Soviet Union's collapse, activists are still confronted by the legacy of Communism, particularly in regards to Stalinism. Tariq Ali's The Stalinist Legacy aims to deepen understanding of the origins, impacts and enduring prominence of Stalinism, so as to help exorcise these ghosts of the past. Edited by Tariq Ali, author of The Obama Syndrome (Verso, 2011) and editor of the New Left Review.'
Les mer
Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.
Preface Introduction to new edition Introduction to the first edition Part 1: The Roots of the Problem 1. Social relations in the Soviet Union - Leon Trotsky 2. The 'Professional Dangers' of Power - Christian Rakovsky 3. What is the Bureaucracy? - Ernest Mandel 4. 'Socialism in Once Country' - Isaac Deutscher 5. Marxism and Primitive Magic - Isaac Deutscher 6. Trotsky's Interpretation of Stalinism - Perry Anderson 7. Was Lenin a Stalinist? - Marcel Liebman 8. Stalinist Ideology and Science - Michael Löwy Part 2: Stalinism in Crisis 9. The Trotskyists in Vorkuta Prison Camp - 'M.B.' 10. Stalin and the Second World War - Fernando Claudin 11. The First Breach: The Excommunication of Yugoslavia - Josip Broz Tito et al. 12. Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU - Nikita S. Krushchev 13. Maoism, Stalinism and the Chinese Revolution - Roland Lew 14. The Peculiarities of Vietnamese Communism - Pierre Rousset 15. The Tragedy of Indian Communism - K. Damodaran 16. Hungary 1956: A Participant's Account - Nicholas Krasso 17. How They Crushed the Prague Spring of 1968 - Josef Smrkovsky 18. The Political Culture of Hoxha' Albania - Arshi Pipa 19. The Polish Vortex: Solidarity and Socialism - Oliver MacDonald 20. Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet - Daniel Singer Epilogue: The Heirs of Stalin - Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Les mer
Tariq Ali available for interview from London Advertising in Progressive, Nation, and New Left Review Promotion on Tariq Ali's website, www.tariqali.org

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781608462193
Publisert
2013-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Haymarket Books
Vekt
578 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
554

Forfatter
Ali, Tariq

Biographical note

TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.

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