In this Book
- The Historiography of Communism
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
In this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, respected scholar Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Arguing that one important way of understanding communism—other than as a concrete political or ideological force—is as an expression of an essentially reflexive aspect of society that typically manifests itself in social movements. In this regard, Brown understands the history of communism as part of the history of society. Examining works by E. P. Thompson, Karl Marx, and Pierre Clastres, Brown develops the idea of history as an immanent feature of human activities. Taken together, the essays in this book—written over a period of 20 years–offer a distinctive approach to the connections between social theory, criticism, and historiography and to what is “social” about “social movements.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Permissions
- p. ix
- 2. History and History’s Problem
- pp. 42-66
- 5. Ideology and the Metaphysics of Content
- pp. 116-146
- 7. Left Futures
- pp. 160-182
- 8. Rethinking the Crisis of Socialism
- pp. 183-218
- Bibliography
- pp. 233-241
Additional Information
ISBN
9781592139231
Related ISBN(s)
9781592139217, 9781592139224
MARC Record
OCLC
316066690
Pages
260
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2008