Yesterday's tomorrow : on the loneliness of communist specters and the reconstruction of the future / Bini Adamczak ; translated by Adrian Nathan West ; foreword by Raymond Geuss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamczak, Bini, author.

Standardized Title:

Gestern Morgen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--History.

Communism.

Communism--Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Adamczak responds to right-wing criticism in English of her first book, Communism for Kids, and critiques tendencies on the left to sidestep the dark history and the path that Communism ended up taking. She takes the reader through a series of 8 turning-points in the betrayal of communism, moving in reverse chronological order, from when the Soviet Russians deported anti-Fascists to Nazi Germany in 1939, and moving backwards from there: from the Terror of 1937-39 to the failure of the Left in Central Europe to stop the advent of National Socialism to Stalin's rise to power to Kronstadt. The essential question she asks here is: where did it all go wrong, and digs through one traumatic event after another, digging backward in an attempt to recover some reason for hope that can be utilized toward a future"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-170).

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Originally published in German under title: Gestern Morgen.

ISBN:

0-262-36193-0

0-262-36351-8

OCLC:

1202266493