Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we c…
Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt th…
Rosa Luxemburg lived a revolutionary life which determined her theoretical reflections about revolution and the role of the masses within it. The present study provides an analysis of Luxemburg's thoughts about and experiences with revolutionary processes and shows how she furth…
Examines how the Soviet Communist Party encouraged the veneration of Lenin as a revolutionary figure in order to achieve its political goals.
The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern dimension; in October 2017…
Die Oktoberrevolution war nicht irgendein Ereignis. Sie hat das 20. Jahrhundert tiefgreifend geprägt. Und auch unsere eigene Zeit, die mit dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts aus dem Schatten des Roten Oktobers herausgetreten ist, bleibt unterschwellig auf sie bezogen. Die Alternati…
Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx's thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confin…
Long description: Der Band stellt mehr als sechzig der wichtigsten politischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Texte des 20. Jahrhunderts vor - von Lenin bis Mao, von Gandhi bis Mbembe, von Maududi, Qutb, Arendt und Popper bis Habermas, Butler und Sen. Sie alle werden von führenden…
Der Band stellt mehr als sechzig der wichtigsten politischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Texte des 20. Jahrhunderts vor - von Lenin bis Mao, von Gandhi bis Mbembe, von Maududi, Qutb, Arendt und Popper bis Habermas, Butler und Sen. Sie alle werden von führenden Experten interpre…
Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a wo…
