Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment - Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia

A wide-ranging and critical examination of twentieth-century revolutionary movements across four major ideological traditions and countries.

List of contents

Introduction

1 The Agrarian Question in the Russian Revolution: From Material Community to Productivism, and Back

2 ‘Socialism in One Country’ Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary ‘Anti-Imperialism’: The Case of Turkey, 1917–25

3 The Spanish Revolution, Past and Future: Grandeur and Poverty of Anarchism: How the Working Class Takes Over (or Doesn’t), Then and Now

4 Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism? Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR

References

Index

About the author

Loren Goldner is a writer-activist who co-edits Insurgent Notes. He has published numerous articles and several books, including Ubu Saved From Drowning: Worker Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 (2000), Vanguard of Retrogression: Postmodern Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital (2001), and Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer (2006), all with Queequeg Publications.

Summary

A wide-ranging and critical examination of twentieth-century revolutionary movements across four major ideological traditions and countries.

Foreword

Features in Historical Materialism

Promotion targeting left academic journals

Published to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference

Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Product details

• Authors: Loren Goldner, Goldner Loren
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2017
• EAN: 9781608468188
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-818-8
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, Spain, HISTORY / Social History, Turkey, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Bolivia, Marxism & Communism, Political ideologies and movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Türkiye / Turkey