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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alexander, Catherine
• Bayly, Susan
• Campbell, John R
• Hann, Chris
• Humphrey, Caroline
• Klein, Jakob A
• Latham, Kevin
• Makovicky, Nicolette
• Raman, Parvathi
• Raman, Parvathi[Herausgeber]
• Rodgers, Dennis
• West, Harry G
• West, Harry G[Herausgeber]

Titel

Enduring Socialism : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2008]

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• Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers