Marxism & Communism

Aesthetic Marx

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"The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), fro…

The first Marx: a philosophical introduction

by Lamb, Peter, Burnham, Douglas

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"Marx's early work is well known and widely available, but it usually interpreted as at best a kind of stepping-stone to the Marx of Capital. This book offers something completely different; it reconstructs, from his first writings spanning from 1835 to 1846, a coherent and well…

Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late …

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These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent per…

Politics and the Slavic Languages

by Kamusella, Tomasz

fromRoutledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

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During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the …

Communist Propaganda at School: The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet …

by Wojdon, Joanna

fromRoutledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

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Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries. The author argues that…

The art of Czech animation: a history of political dissent and allegory

by Whybray, Adam

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"The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta. Stop…

If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

by Müller, Anna

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If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalini…