Ripe for Revolution - Building Socialism in the Third World

The Cold War¿era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state developed its own socialism, pragmatically addressing local needs and shaping the horizons of socialism today.

Info autore

Jeremy Friedman is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The former Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University, he is the author of Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World.

Riassunto

The Cold War–era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state developed its own socialism, pragmatically addressing local needs and shaping the horizons of socialism today.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jeremy Friedman
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780674244313
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24431-3
• Pagine: 368
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, General & world history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Marxism & Communism, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War, HISTORY / Russia / General