Boris Kagarlitsky

The Long Retreat

Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left
Übersetzer: Clarke, Renfrey

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Produktbeschreibung

An intellectual tour-de-force by one of Russiaâ s most prominent dissidents

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Produktdetails

• Transnational Institute
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 139mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780745350288
• ISBN-10: 0745350283
• Artikelnr.: 69826334

Autorenporträt

Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is the author of many books, his latest being The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left. In 2023 he was detained under Putin's regime for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, and in February 2024 he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Since then, the Daniel Singer Foundation designated him as the recipient of its 2024 Prisoner of Conscience Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Part I: Socialism as a Problem
1. In the Labyrinth of Ideology
2. Revolution as Practice
3. The State and the Bureaucracy
Part II: The Revenge of Capital
4. From Nomenklatura to Bourgeoisie: The Evolution of the Soviet Elite
5. What Remains of the Welfare State?
6. A Kaleidoscope of Problems and Opportunities
Part III: Neoliberalism: Long Goodbyes
7. A Sick Society
8. War, Hunger and Economic Restructuring
Part IV: The Fallen Banner
9. Who Will Transform Society?
10. The Problem of Control
11. Between Reform and Revolution
Part V: The Return of Hope
12. Where to Begin?
13. Plan and Market
14. From the Coalition of Resistance to the Coalition of Change
Conclusion