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Author_Adam B Ulam
Bourgeois Freedoms
Brezhnev Kosygin Regime
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Communist Parties
Communist State
comparative socialism
contemporary socialism
Contemporary Society
Double Effectiveness
Economic Assistance
economic modernization
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Fifteenth Party Conference
Foreign Communists
German Social Democratic Party
Girl Friends
Guild Socialism
ICBM
Industrial Evolution
International Communist Conspiracy
Land Cultivator
Leninist ideology
Marx's Errors
Marxist ideology
Marxist influence on Western institutions
Marx’s Errors
modernization and industrialization
political theory
Revolutionary Elite
Revolutionary Marxism
revolutionary theories
Russian Communism
Single Postulate
socialist movements
Soviet Patriotism
Soviet state analysis
Unnatural Alienation
Utopian Socialist Theories
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367296919
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 139 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Marxism has been the most pervasive and widespread ideological phenomenon of our times, but seldom, if ever, has it been found in its form. Whenever the Marxist ideology has been historically significant, it has been so as a beneficiary and associate of another set of political beliefs and passions. As a contender for power it seeks to express the dreams and yearnings of societies caught in the painful process of modernization and industrialization. In power it tends to pay lip service to its lofty goals, but associates them with old-fashioned nationalism. Practice does not reflect theory. Ruling elites and parties surpass traditional capitalism in their dedication to political centralization and industrialism at all costs. This revised edition of Adam Ulam's standard work retains the author's summary and critique of Marx's historical, economic, and political arguments. Ulam then examines the relationship of Marxism to other schools of contemporary socialism and to other radical and revolutionary theories. He traces the development of Marxian thought, explains why it has been the potent force in certain societies–while in other societies its influence has been insignificant–and analyzes how Marxism and Leninism have affected the shaping of Russian Communism. Finally Ulam looks at Marxism in the future: the role it will play in the development of the Soviet Union, and how it will affect the contemporary crisis of liberal institutions in the West.
Adam B. Ulam, one of this country's most eminent authorities on Marxism and the Soviet Union, has been a member of the faculty at Harvard University since 1946, where he is now professor of government. He is also associated with Harvard's Russian Research Center as a research fellow and member of the executive committee.
