One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9633864054 ISBN 13 : 9789633864050

Editeur : Central European University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park), President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (April 2006-March 2007), and since April 2007, Chairman of the Presidential Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.

Jordan Luber is a 2023 JD candidate at American University Washington College of Law, and a staff writer for the Human Rights Brief.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Central European University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9633864054
• ISBN 13: 9789633864050
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Éditeur: Tismaneanu Vladimir, Luber Jordan
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• Personne responsable: non disponible