The literate communist : 150 years of the Communist manifesto /

"Professor Hodges' thesis is that the Communist Manifesto is not what it claims to be - a forthright and faithful expression of what communists believed in 1848 - and that its subsequent adaptations periodically opened the door to and slammed the door shut on communism. Part I introduces s...

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Introduction: Understanding the Manifesto --
A Perplexing Document.
The League of the Just.
Marx's Communist Correspondence Committees.
A Marriage of Incompatibles?
Making Communism Credible.
Amending the Manifesto --
A Consequential Document.
An Anarchist Manifesto: Bakunin.
A Social Democratic Manifesto: Bernstein.
A Communist Manifesto: Lenin and Trotsky.
A Socialist Manifesto: Stalin.
A Humanist Manifesto: Khrushchev and Gorbachev.
Conclusion: Assessing the Manifesto.
1. Verfasser:
Hodges, Donald Clark
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : P. Lang Pub., c1999.
Zusammenfassung:
"Professor Hodges' thesis is that the Communist Manifesto is not what it claims to be - a forthright and faithful expression of what communists believed in 1848 - and that its subsequent adaptations periodically opened the door to and slammed the door shut on communism. Part I introduces students to the Manifesto's conspiratorial legacy stemming from the great French Revolution of 1789-1794 and to Marx and Engels' informal amendments to it. Part II examines the 150-year-old posthistory of the Manifesto and its interpretations that pull in opposite directions. The author concludes that the Janus-faced Manifesto played a key ideological role in not only the rise, but also the demise of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 217 p. )
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Major concepts in politics and political theory The literate communist
Schlagworte:
Marx, Karl, > 1818-1883. > Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei.
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