The Socialist Phenomenon
Author: Игорь Ростиславович Шафаревич
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
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The Socialist Phenomenon: A Historical Survey of Socialist Policies and Ideals
Author: Igor Shafarevich
Publisher: Gideon House Books
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1943133778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Socialist Phenomenon is a powerful survey of socialism and socialist thought from ancient times to the present day. Most assume that socialism and communism began with the writings of Karl Marx, but through his book Shafarevich lays out with amazing clarity that socialism is an evil that has been present in man’s thoughts and actions for thousands of years. In the age of “democratic socialism” and other modern iterations, The Socialist Phenomenon reminds us of the truth about socialism and the dangers that come when societies embrace socialist policies and ideals.
Socialist Phenomenon
Author: Igor Shafarevich
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9785883394019
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Author: Igorʹ Rostislavovič Šafarevič
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780063370142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Socialism as a Secular Creed
Author: Andrei Znamenski
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-01-29
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1498557317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.
Dropping out of Socialism
Author: Juliane Fürst
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1498525156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process, multiple drop-out cultures were created, with their own spaces, music, values, style, slang, ideology and networks. Under socialism, this phenomenon was little-known outside the socialist sphere. Only very recently has it been possible to reconstruct it through archival work, oral histories and memoirs. Such a diverse set of subcultures demands a multi-disciplinary approach: the essays in this volume are written by historians, anthropologists and scholars of literature, cultural and gender studies. The history of these movements not only shows us a side of state socialist life that was barely known in the west. It also sheds new light on the demise and eventual collapse of late socialism, and raises important questions about the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western subcultures.
The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia
Author: Melissa Chakars
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2014-05-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9633860148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.
The Socialist Temptation
Author: Iain Murray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1684510759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →IT'S BACK! Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away—and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again. Oblivious to the unexampled prosperity capitalism has showered upon them, they are demanding utopia. In his provocative new book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains: Why the socialist temptation is suddenly so powerful among young people That even when socialism doesn’t usher in a bloody tyranny (as, for example, in the Soviet Union, China, and Venezuela), it still makes everyone poor and miserable Why under the relatively benign democractic socialism of Murray's youth in pre-Thatcher Britain, he had to do his homework by candlelight That the Scandinavian economies are not really socialist at all The inconsistencies in socialist thought that prevent it from ever working in practice How we can show young people the sorry truth about socialism and turn the tide of history against this destructive pipe dream Sprightly, convincing, and original, The Socialist Temptation is a powerful warning that the resurgence of socialism could rob us of our freedom and prosperity.
Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36
Author: Cecelia Bucki
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780252026874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A backdrop to the evolving national developments of the New Deal, this study stands at the intersection of political, labor, and ethnic history and provides a new perspective on how working people affected urban politics in the interwar era."--BOOK JACKET.
The Socialist Sixties
Author: Anne E. Gorsuch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-06-12
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0253009499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.
