One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luber, Jordan, editor.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Communism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 408 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York [New York] : Central European University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin's coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism's past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part four: Society and culture. Communist rhetoric as official practices of discourse : making epideictic arguments on authority and national identity / Noemi Marin

Selective repression and democratic opposition in post-totalitarian Hungary / András Bozóki

Lost in Protochronia : ideological Dada in Ceaușescu's Romania / Mircea Mihǎieș

The road to liberation theology : experiments at the intersection of confessional and secular religion / Piotr H. Kosicki

Philosophical lessons from the Bolshevik experiment / Marci Shore.

Part three: Politics. Romancing a millenarian state : from Petrograd to Raqqa / Leon Aron

Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the dialectical quarrels of post-war Europe / Marius Stan

China's enduring Leninist toolkit : perspectives on CCP organization and ideology / Margaret M. Pearson

Reductio ad Reaganum : reflections on communism's enduring ideological invulnerability / Venelin I. Ganev

Ideology and violence in communist Venezuela / Jordan Luber.

Part two: Economics. The comparative assessment of communist and post-communist system performance and human wellbeing : challenges and insights from in-depth case study approaches / Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko

Communist economy : the verdict of history / Steven Rosefielde

Looking back at the Soviet economic experience / Peter Rutland

Incentives, coercion, and redistribution : why industrial central plan economies performed worse than Western market economies and better than less developed economies / Michael S. Bernstam

The rise and fall of the planned economy and its long-lasting effects on transition / Serguey Braguinsky.

Part one: Fantasies of salvation. German communism, the Jews and Israel : from the antifascism of World War II to the undeclared wars of the Cold War / Jeffrey Herf

Euphoria to decay : post-Marxist revision's mortal threat to communism / Vladimir Tismaneanu

Getting off the red tram of socialism / Mykola Riabchuk

The rise, demise, and pernicious long-term impact of Soviet communist ideology in Russia / Mark Kramer.

Introduction: Why a 20th century exercise in the 21st century / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72114-1

963-386-406-2

OCLC:

1242018052