Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future

Adamczak, Bini

ISBN 10: 0262045133 / ISBN 13: 9780262045131

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2021

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Inhaltsangabe:

How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.

The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917: the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Bini Adamczak is a Berlin-based social theorist and artist who writes on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions. She is the author of Communism for Kids (MIT Press).

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Titel: Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of ...
Verlag: The MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Fine