Leninism

In this volume, Neil Harding presents the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Leninism to be produced in many...
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Author: Neil Harding
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Leninism by Harding, Neil

Leninism

€64,14

Leninism

€64,14
Author: Neil Harding
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Neil Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/22/1996
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.48w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780822318675

About the Author

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


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