Between Bolshevism and Revisionism
Author | : Harald Hamrin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Italy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Harald Hamrin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Italy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Z. Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonah Goldberg |
Publisher | : Crown Forum |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 110190495X |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: • Our rights come from God, not from the government. • The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. • The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. • The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past—or back to the muck we will go.
Author | : John Arch Getty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521335706 |
This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the party bureaucracy was chaotic rather than totalitarian, and that local officials had relative autonomy within a considerably fragmented political system. The Moscow leadership, of which Stalin was the most authoritarian actor, reacted to social and political processes as much as instigating them. Because of disputes, confusion, and inefficiency, they often promoted contradictory policies. Avoiding the usual concentration on Stalin's personality, the author puts forward the controversial hypothesis that the Great Purges occurred not as the end product of a careful Stalin plan, but rather as the bloody but ad hoc result of Moscow's incremental attempts to centralise political power.
Author | : David Priestland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199245134 |
'Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization' provides a new explanation of the political violence in Stalin's Soviet Union during the late 1930s by examining the thinking of Stalin and his allies, and placing it in the broader context of Bolshevik ideas since 1917.
Author | : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Woods |
Publisher | : Wellred Books |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2018-11-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1900007851 |
There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either a historical "accident" or "tragedy." Or it is portrayed erroneously as the work of one great man (Lenin) who marched single-minded toward the October Revolution. Author Alan Woods* reveals the real evolution of Bolshevism as a living struggle of various class forces, tendencies and individuals. Using a wealth of primary sources, Woods uncovers the fascinating growth and development of Bolshevism in pre-revolutionary Russia up to the seizure of power in October 1917. This is the second, expanded US edition of this monumental work. It comes at an important time, as the world economic crisis calls for a thorough study of working class history in order to educate a new generation of revolutionaries.
Author | : Edward Acton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1990-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780713165302 |
This study is an introduction to the momentous events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 with an analysis of the reasons behind the characteristic polarization of opinions concerning this momentous political event and why for some it is a milestone of human progress and for others, a catastrophic chapter in government oppression.
Author | : Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674076082 |
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author | : Jim Wolfreys |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789603196 |
In History and Revolution, a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English, French, and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, History and Revolution also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama. This important book shows the inability of revisionism to explain why millions are moved to act in defence of political causes, and why specific political currents emerge, and is a significant reassertion of the concept of revolution in human development.