| Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future Contributor(s): Adamczak, Bini (Author), West, Adrian Nathan (Translator), Geuss, Raymond (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0262045133 ISBN-13: 9780262045131 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Future Studies |
| Dewey: 335.43 |
| LCCN: 2020021696 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |