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This review is from: A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev (Paperback)
While the book itself is of course in perfect shape, I had thought it would be more comprehensive and would also carry complete documents. Instead it is a selection of fragments. Obviously I misunderstood what it was about. The author does state in the foreword that it is intended for readers not specialised in the area, but I was looking for something more like a "white book"...
To sum up, while I can say nothing "against" the book, which might well be worth a reading for beginners, I would not recommend it to those in search of much specific detail.
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What motivates Socialists/Communists?,
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This review is from: A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev (Paperback)
An excellent collection of primary sources in understanding what motivated the first Socialists in modern time. The utilitarian philosophy, seeing mans value as primarily linked to his labor, and the discounting of any truth that is unseen or immaterial-other than their personal emotions of course, becomes clear in reading these essays etc.
Also a foundation of their philosophy is material inequality as the CAUSE of sin (envy, greed etc.) rather than a product of mans disordrered desires...hence their strange belief that man is malleable through the manipulation of material products exclusively, and the possibility of "no state"gov't in the future b/c of the perfection of man through material equality. Perhaps lacks enough on the symbiotic relationship of the Tsarist gov't and the Orthodox Church which was a factor in these peculiar and extreme views of mans nature..always backed up with plenty of hyperbole and little explanation of details how things are to be accomplished. GREAT in understanding the role of this ideology in AMERICAN liberals...as Russia had its liberals too...only they were less dedicated to socialist principles than the modern American version. TM Mtc., NJ
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The background of the Communist movement was dominated by one powerful figure, Lenin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary socialist accumulation, rotten theory, revolutionary sweep, communist construction, developed socialist society, exploiting minority, socialist proletariat, proletarian state, other public organizations, wage equalization, scientific communism, socialist production, developed socialism, socialist industry, communist morality, proletarian dictatorship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Communist Party, Soviet Union, Supreme Soviet, Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Constituent Assembly, Council of People's Commissars, Provisional Government, Military-Revolutionary Committee, People's Deputies, Selected Works, General Secretary, Soviet Communism, Comrade Kamenev, Era of Stagnation, New York, Bolshevik Party, Central Executive Committee, Social Democracy, The Interval, Council of Ministers, Russian Republic, Academy of Sciences, Petrograd Soviet, Control Commission, Red Army New!
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The background of the Communist movement was dominated by one powerful figure, Lenin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary socialist accumulation, rotten theory, revolutionary sweep, communist construction, developed socialist society, exploiting minority, socialist proletariat, proletarian state, other public organizations, wage equalization, scientific communism, socialist production, developed socialism, socialist industry, communist morality, proletarian dictatorship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Communist Party, Soviet Union, Supreme Soviet, Current Digest of the Soviet Press, Constituent Assembly, Council of People's Commissars, Provisional Government, Military-Revolutionary Committee, People's Deputies, Selected Works, General Secretary, Soviet Communism, Comrade Kamenev, Era of Stagnation, New York, Bolshevik Party, Central Executive Committee, Social Democracy, The Interval, Council of Ministers, Russian Republic, Academy of Sciences, Petrograd Soviet, Control Commission, Red Army New!
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- Selected Works. by Vladimir Ilich Lenin on 20 pages
- Lenin Collected Works V 2 by Vladimir Ilyi Lenin on page 62, and page 330
- The State and Revolution (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Front Matter, and page 47
- The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky on page 175, and page 201
- The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx on page 47, and page 107
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- Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution by Rolf Hellebust on 5 pages
- The End of the Communist Revolution by Robert V. Daniels in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy) by Peter J Boettke on page 104, page 136, and Back Matter
- The Stalin Era (Routledge Sources in History) by Philip Boobbyer on page 22, page 181, and page 189
- Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution (European History in Perspective) by James D. White in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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