Description: Complications : Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy, Hardcover by Lefort, Claude; Bourg, Julian (TRN); Howard, Dick (FRW), ISBN 0231133006, ISBN-13 9780231133005, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Complications is a brilliant study of the nature of communist totalitarianism pursued through the criticism of the recent work of two neo-liberal historians, Francois Furet and Martin Malia. Their books, The Passing of an Illusion and The Soviet Tragedy respectively were enthusiastically received in the West and, in Leforts view, have drastically and harmfully oversimplified the nature of the Soviet regime and the nature of the support for it in the interests of providing a historiographical complement to the aggressive neo-liberal consensus of the present day. Lefort, who has always insisted on the relevance of the critique of totalitarianism to the renewal of the left, detects in the authors he surveys a neo-liberal bias that corrupts their interpretation both of the nature and of the lasting significance of the communist regime. It matters a great deal how autopsies of the Soviet Union are conducted because they imply what range of alternatives there is to its failed and criminal enterprise.
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Book Title: Complications : Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Politics, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Claude Lefort
Subject Area: Political Science
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
