Yesterday's Tomorrow - On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of

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. Adamczak reflects on 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, as she seeks a future that never happened.

List of contents

Foreword by Raymond Geuss
1 End
2 Farewell
3 Party
4 Class
5 Promise
6 Revolution
PS
Notes
References

About the author

Bini Adamczak; translated by Adrian Nathan West

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Bini Adamczak, Adamczak Bini, Adrain Nathan West, Raymond Geuss, Adrain Nathan West, Adrian Nathan West
• Assisted by: Adrian Nathan West (Translation)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780262045131
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04513-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism