| Lenin's Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions Contributor(s): Harding, Neil (Author) |
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ISBN: 1931859892 ISBN-13: 9781931859899 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Caricatured as a superhuman idol in the former Communist states, the Russian revolutionary socialist V. I. Lenin has long been reversely caricatured in the West as an authoritarian elitist. In this brilliant, carefully researched analysis, Neil Harding upends these traditional Cold War interpretations of Lenin's thought and activity. Harding shows how Lenin's flexible and continuously changing theoretical, strategic, and tactical insights were firmly grounded in the emancipatory potential for working-class revolution in Russia and around the world. Neil Harding is an internationally renowned scholar of Soviet history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 320.532 |
| LCCN: 2009033672 |
| Physical Information: 1.87" H x 6.08" W x 8.84" (2.41 lbs) 740 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Caricatured as a superhuman idol in the former Communist states, the Russian revolutionary socialist V. I. Lenin has long been reversely caricatured in the West as an authoritarian elitist. In this brilliant, carefully researched analysis, Neil Harding upends these traditional Cold War interpretations of Lenin's thought and activity. Harding shows how Lenin's flexible and continuously changing theoretical, strategic, and tactical insights were firmly grounded in the emancipatory potential for working-class revolution in Russia and around the world. Neil Harding is an internationally renowned scholar of Soviet history. |