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Author |
: Boris Groys |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2014-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784780296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784780294 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Communist Postscript by : Boris Groys
Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution.
Author |
: Boris Groys |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2022-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781844674329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1844674320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Communist Postscript by : Boris Groys
A provocative essay on the relationship between communism, philosophy and language. Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution.
Author |
: Nikolas K. Gvosdev |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412835176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412835178 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Strange Death of Soviet Communism by : Nikolas K. Gvosdev
The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. This work brings together scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment (on modes of organization to social life) failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias.
Author |
: Maria Todorova |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857456434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857456431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Post-communist Nostalgia by : Maria Todorova
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Author |
: Boris Groĭs |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1934105309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781934105306 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Going Public by : Boris Groĭs
If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art--which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place. Boris Groys is Professor at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Author |
: Risto Alapuro |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2018-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004386174 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004386173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis State and Revolution in Finland by : Risto Alapuro
By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, is concretely studied by putting the abortive Finnish revolution of 1917-18 into a long historical and a broad comparative perspective.
Author |
: Boris Groys |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2020-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789601138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789601134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Antiphilosophy by : Boris Groys
Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture. But, today, we have become sceptical about the ability of an individual philosopher to engage in 'universal thinking', so philosophy seems to capitulate in the face of cultural relativism. In Introduction to Antiphilosophy, Boris Groys argues that modern 'antiphilosophy' does not pursue the universality of thought as its goal but proposes in its place the universality of life, material forces, social practices, passions, and experiences - angst, vitality, ecstasy, the gift, revolution, laughter or 'profane illumination' - and he analyses this shift from thought to life and action in the work of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Derrida, from Nietzsche to Benjamin. Ranging across the history of modern thought, Introduction to Antiphilosophy endeavours to liberate philosophy from the stereotypes that hinder its development.
Author |
: Stephen F. Cohen |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393322262 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393322262 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Failed Crusade by : Stephen F. Cohen
In the 1990s, as Russia under Yeltsin began the transition to a market economy, most American Russia-watchers saw an optimistic future ahead. In the early twenty-first century, so-called reform economic policies have left some 70 percent of Russians living near the poverty line -- many embittered, deprived of life savings, welfare subsidies, health care, and job security. What has happened in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union? What led U.S. experts and the media to so seriously misjudge the situation?
Author |
: Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 920 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674076087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674076082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Book of Communism by : Stéphane Courtois
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author |
: Robert Gellately |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2013-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307962355 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307962350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalin's Curse by : Robert Gellately
A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Joseph Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader, whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, and not communist ideology. Now, using recently uncovered documents, Robert Gellately conclusively shows that, in fact, the dictator was biding his time, determined to establish Communist regimes across Europe and beyond. His actions during those years—and the poorly calculated responses to them from the West—set in motion what would eventually become the Cold War. Exciting, deeply engaging, and shrewdly perceptive, Stalin’s Curse is an unprecedented revelation of the sinister machinations of Stalin’s Kremlin.