Socialism
Crisis and Renewal
Published on 30. March 1993
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-275-94089-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of original essays offers a defense of socialism in the face of its recent collapse. The volume provides both an overview and a critical inquiry into the essential aspects of the crisis and fall of socialism. It also, however, assesses the prospects of the renewal of the socialist project by addressing long-neglected issues in socialist thinking and writing. Recent developments in Russia, Cuba, and China, combined with theoretical expositions of the crisis and fall of socialism, are used to assess some of the strengths and weaknesses of socialist regimes. Critical essays on specific issues---such as the environment, feminism, law, and Marxist theory---point the way, the authors hope, toward a renewal and re-energizing of socialism.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of socialism, Marxism, comparative politics, and political theory.
This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of socialism, Marxism, comparative politics, and political theory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
573 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94089-8 (9780275940898)
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Person
CHRONIS POLYCHRONIOU is Associate Professor of Political Science at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Marxist Perspectives on Imperialism (Praeger, 1991) and editor of Perspectives and Issues in International Political Economy (Praeger, 1992).
Content
The Crisis and Fall of Socialism On Developments in the Socialist Countries by Carl Bloice, Erwin Marquitt, and Jay Schaffner Bringing Imperialism Back In: The Missing Dimension in Understanding the Fall of Socialist Regimes by Chronis Polychroniou and Harry R. Targ Reconsidering Leninism by Marcel van der Linden The Roots of the Russian Catastrophe and the Failure of the Post-Communist Leadership by James Petras and Chronis Polychroniou Will There Be a Democratic Transition to Capitalism in Russia? by Steve Vieux Cuban Socialism: A Historical Overview by Harry R. Targ Cuba in the Special Period: A Report By James Petras Economic Reform and Systemic Change in China by Victor D. Lippit Toward the Renewal of the Socialist Project Socialism, Ecology, and Democracy: Toward a Strategy of Conversion by Victor Wallis The Socialist Future of Radical Feminism by Lynn Chancer Law, Politics, and the Social Relations of Production by Gerald Turkel and Hao Pan Gramsci, the Left, and the 1990s: An Agenda for Research by Anne Showstack Sassoon The Future of Marxism and the Future of Theory by Michael E. Brown Selected Bibliography Index