The Road to Disillusion: From Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern Europe: From Critical Marxism to Post-communism in Eastern Europe / Edition 1

by Raymond C. Taras

Overview

The history of reform movements in postwar Eastern Europe is ultimately ironic, inasmuch as the reformers'successes and defeats alike served to discredit and demoralize the regimes they sought to redeem. The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it. Included here are essays by James P. Scanlan on the USSR, Ferenc Feher on Hungary, Leslie Holmes on the German Democratic Republic, Raymond Taras on Poland, James Satterwhite on Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Tismaneanu on Romania, Mark Baskin on Bulgaria, and Oskar Gruenwald on Yugoslavia. In concert, the contributors provide a comprehensive intellectual history and a veritable Who's Who of revisionist Marxism in Eastern Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780873327916
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

USSR,
Hungary,
GDR,
Poland,
Czechoslovakia,
Romania,
Bulgaria,
Yugoslavia

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The “Meltdown” of Marxism in the Soviet Bloc, Raymond Taras; Chapter 2 From Samizdat to Perestroika, James P. Scanlan; Chapter 3 The Language of Resistance, Ferenc Fehér; Chapter 4 The Significance of Marxist Dissent to the Emergence of Postcommunism in the GDR, Leslie Holmes; Chapter 5 Marxist Critiques of Political Crises in Poland, Raymond Taras; Chapter 6 Marxist Critique and Czechoslovak Reform, James Satterwhite; Chapter 7 From Arrogance to Irrelevance, Vladimir Tismaneanu; Chapter 8 Bulgaria, Mark Baskin; Chapter 9 Praxis and Democratization in Yugoslavia, Oskar Gruenwald;