The Road to Disillusion: From Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern Europe - From Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern Europe

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

List of contents

Chapter 1 The "Meltdown" of Marxism in the Soviet Bloc, Raymond Taras; Chapter 2 From Samizdat to Perestroika, James P. Scanlan; Chapter 3 The Language of Resistance, Ferenc Fehér; Chapter 4 The Significance of Marxist Dissent to the Emergence of Postcommunism in the GDR, Leslie Holmes; Chapter 5 Marxist Critiques of Political Crises in Poland, Raymond Taras; Chapter 6 Marxist Critique and Czechoslovak Reform, James Satterwhite; Chapter 7 From Arrogance to Irrelevance, Vladimir Tismaneanu; Chapter 8 Bulgaria, Mark Baskin; Chapter 9 Praxis and Democratization in Yugoslavia, Oskar Gruenwald;

About the author

USSR,
Hungary,
GDR,
Poland,
Czechoslovakia,
Romania,
Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia

Summary

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond C. Taras
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780873327909
• ISBN: 978-0-87332-790-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Pressure groups & lobbying