Bertram Wolfe

An Ideology in Power

Reflections on the Russian Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1969 and representing a quarter of a century's work of one of the USA's most respected scholars in Soviet affairs, this volume discusses the question of what happens to an ideology in power, by focusing on the evolution and uses of Marxism in Soviet practice. As well as analyzing totalitarian behaviour, the author offers advice for Western policy from analysis of the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9781138236103
• ISBN-10: 1138236101
• Artikelnr.: 55392779

Autorenporträt

Bertram Wolfe

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Ideology: From Marxism to Marxism-Leninism 1. Marxism and the
Russian Revolution 2. Backwardness and Industrialization in Russian History
and Thought 3. Das Kapital One Hundred Years Later Part 2: War as the Womb
of Revolution 1. War Comes to Russia 2. War Comes to Russia-in-Exile 3.
Titans Locked in Combat 4. The Triple Power: The Role of the Barracks and
the Street Part 3: Permanent Dictatorship and the Problem of Legitimacy 1.
Society and the State 2. Lenin, the Architect of Twentieth-Century
Totalitarianism 3. The Durability of Despotism in the Soviet System 4. The
Struggle for the Succession 5. The Age of the Diminishing Dictators Part 4:
Proletarian Dictatorship as a Higher Form of Democracy 1. Prometheus Bound
2. The Dark Side of the Moon 3. The Forced Labor Reform After Stalin's
Death 4. Elections under the Dictatorship Part 5: The Conditioning of
Culture 1. Operation Rewrite: the Agony of the Soviet Historian 2. Party
Histories from Lenin to Khrushchev 3. Science Joins the Party 4. Culture
and communist Criticism 5. Some Wonders of the Russian Tongue 6. The Great
Blackout Part 6: Problems of Foreign Policy 1. Communist Ideology and
Soviet Foreign Policy 2. Poland: The Acid Test of a People's Peace 3. The
Convergence Theory in Historical Perspective