Enduring Socialism
Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Communism & Socialism, Social Science, Anthropology
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781845458720 | |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books | Publication: | November 1, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781845458720 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Publication: | November 1, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Language: | English |
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.
