Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future
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How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.
The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.
The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.
PUBLISHER:
MIT Press
ISBN-10:
0262045133
ISBN-13:
9780262045131
BINDING:
Hardback
BISAC:
Social Science
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2021
NUMBER OF PAGES:
184
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.73(H) x 5.59(W) x 8.27(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English