Communism and Democracy : History, debates and potentials /

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from the long winter of neoliberalism, and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Makin-Waite, Mike (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Communist parties.
Socialism > History.
Communism > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. The promise of modernity
  • 1. The record of communism
  • 2. Enlightenment and revolution
  • 3. 'An extraordinary brainwave' : the emergence of Marxism
  • 4. Forward from liberalism?
  • 5. Socialism, Engels, Marxism and democracy
  • 6. Inescapable debates
  • part II. The short communist century, 1917-1989
  • 7. 1917
  • 8. Regime change, everywhere
  • 9. Not catching modernity's promise
  • 10. Popular Fronts and the war of position
  • 11. Cold War, Khrushchev and 1956
  • 12. The dialectics of 1968
  • 13. September in Santiago
  • 14. Menshevism reloaded?
  • 15. The end of the old times
  • part III. Routes for radicals
  • 16. The red and the green
  • 17. The left since the 1990s
  • 18. Prospects for renewal?

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