Boundaries of Utopia - Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin

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Erik Van Ree

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

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The idea that socialism could be established in a single country was adopted as an official doctrine by the Soviet Union in 1925, Stalin and Bukharin being the main formulators of the policy. Before this there had been much debate as to whether the only way to secure socialism would be as a result of socialist revolution on a much broader scale, across all Europe or wider still. This book traces the development of ideas about communist utopia from Plato onwards, paying particular attention to debates about universalist ideology versus the possibility for "socialism in one country". The book argues that although the prevailing view is that "socialism in one country" was a sharp break from a long tradition that tended to view socialism as only possible if universal, in fact the territorially confined socialist project had long roots, including in the writings of Marx and Engels.

Author Biography:

Erik van Ree is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of East European/European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Release date NZ

January 3rd, 2018

Author

Erik Van Ree

Series

Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Pages

248

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

ISBN-13

9780815364320

Product ID

27742307

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