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Harding, Neil

 
9780822318675: Leninism
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ISBN 10: 0822318679 ISBN 13: 9780822318675
Editorial: Duke University Press, 1996

Sinopsis

In this volume, Neil Harding presents the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Leninism to be produced in many years. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom regarding Leninism's effectiveness as a mobilizing body of ideas, its substance, and its origins and evolution, Harding offers both a controversial exposition of this ideology and a critical engagement with its consequences for the politics of contemporary communism. Rather than tracing the roots of Leninism to the details of Lenin's biography, Harding shows how it emerged as a revolutionary Marxist response to the First World War and to the perceived treachery-the support of that war-by social democratic leaders. The economics, politics, and philosophy of Leninism, he argues, were rapidly theorized between 1914 and 1918 and deeply imprinted with the peculiarities of the wartime experience. Its complementary metaphysics of history and science was as intrinsic to its confidence and sureness of purpose as it was to its contempt for democratic practice and tolerance. But, as Harding also shows, although Leninism articulated a complex and coherent critique of capitalist civilization and held a powerful appeal to a variety of constituencies, it was itself caught in a timewarp that fatally limited its capacity to adapt. This book will engage not only Russian and Soviet specialists, but also readers concerned with the varieties of twentieth-century socialism.

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Acerca del autor

Neil Harding is Professor of Politics at University College, Swansea.

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"This is an important book, an extremely impressive work, erudite and accessible. Harding has put forward a strong and stimulating interpretation of Lenin's thought."--Richard Sakwa, University of Kent at Canterbury

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Editorial
Duke University Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822318679
ISBN 13 
9780822318675
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
356
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