One hundred years of communist experiments

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Titel: One hundred years of communist experiments

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: Why a 20th Century Exercise in the 21st Century
PART ONE: FANTASIES OF SALVATION
German Communism, the Jews, and Israel
Euphoria to Decay
Getting off the Red Tram of Socialism
The Rise, Demise, and Pernicious Long-Term Impact of Soviet Communist Ideology in Russia
PART TWO: ECONOMICS
The Comparative Assessment of Communist and Post-Communist System Performance and Human Wellbeing
Communist Economy
Looking Back at the Soviet Economic Experience
Incentives, Coercion, and Redistribution
The Rise and Fall of the Planned Economy and Its Long-Lasting Effects on Transition
PART THREE: POLITICS
Romancing a Millenarian State
Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the Dialectical Quarrels of Post-war Europe
China’s Enduring Leninist Toolkit
Reductio ad Reaganum
Ideology and Violence in Communist Venezuela
PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Communist Rhetoric as Official Practices of Discourse
Selective Repression and Democratic Opposition in Post-Totalitarian Hungary
Lost in Protochronia: Ideological Dada in Ceaușescu’s Romania
The Road to Liberation Theology
Philosophical Lessons from the Bolshevik Experiment
List of Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Aligica, Paul Dragos [Mitwirkende:r]; Aron, Leon [Mitwirkende:r]; Bernstam, Michael S. [Mitwirkende:r]; Bozóki, András [Mitwirkende:r]; Braguinsky, Serguey [Mitwirkende:r]; Ganev, Venelin I. [Mitwirkende:r]; Herf, Jeffrey [Mitwirkende:r]; Kosicki, Piotr H. [Mitwirkende:r]; Kramer, Mark [Mitwirkende:r]; Luber, Jordan [Herausgeber:in]; Marin, Noemi [Mitwirkende:r]; Mihăieș, Mircea [Mitwirkende:r]; Pearson, Margaret M. [Mitwirkende:r]; Riabchuk, Mykola [Mitwirkende:r]; Rosefielde, Steven [Mitwirkende:r]; Rutland, Peter [Mitwirkende:r]; Shore, Marci [Mitwirkende:r]; Stan, Marius [Mitwirkende:r]; Tarko, Vlad [Mitwirkende:r]; Tismaneanu, Vladimir [Mitwirkende:r]; Tismăneanu, Vladimir [Herausgeber:in]

Erschienen: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (408 Seiten)

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9789633864067

Schlagwörter: Kommunismus ; Planwirtschaft ; Ideologie ; Geschichte ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Sowjetunion ; Europa ; China ; Communism History ; Communism ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics ; Economic development, Ideology, Intellectuals, Modernization, Political theory, Postcommunism

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Beschreibung: Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future

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