Socialism : crisis and renewal

Author(s)

• Polychroniou, Chronis

Bibliographic Information

Socialism : crisis and renewal

edited by Chronis Polychroniou

Praeger, 1993

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-245) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of original essays offers a defense of socialism in the face of its recent collapse. The volume provides both an overview and a critical inquiry into the essential aspects of the crisis and fall of socialism. It also, however, assesses the prospects of the renewal of the socialist project by addressing long-neglected issues in socialist thinking and writing. Recent developments in Russia, Cuba, and China, combined with theoretical expositions of the crisis and fall of socialism, are used to assess some of the strengths and weaknesses of socialist regimes. Critical essays on specific issues---such as the environment, feminism, law, and Marxist theory---point the way, the authors hope, toward a renewal and re-energizing of socialism. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of socialism, Marxism, comparative politics, and political theory.

Table of Contents

The Crisis and Fall of Socialism On Developments in the Socialist Countries by Carl Bloice, Erwin Marquitt, and Jay Schaffner Bringing Imperialism Back In: The Missing Dimension in Understanding the Fall of Socialist Regimes by Chronis Polychroniou and Harry R. Targ Reconsidering Leninism by Marcel van der Linden The Roots of the Russian Catastrophe and the Failure of the Post-Communist Leadership by James Petras and Chronis Polychroniou Will There Be a Democratic Transition to Capitalism in Russia? by Steve Vieux Cuban Socialism: A Historical Overview by Harry R. Targ Cuba in the Special Period: A Report By James Petras Economic Reform and Systemic Change in China by Victor D. Lippit Toward the Renewal of the Socialist Project Socialism, Ecology, and Democracy: Toward a Strategy of Conversion by Victor Wallis The Socialist Future of Radical Feminism by Lynn Chancer Law, Politics, and the Social Relations of Production by Gerald Turkel and Hao Pan Gramsci, the Left, and the 1990s: An Agenda for Research by Anne Showstack Sassoon The Future of Marxism and the Future of Theory by Michael E. Brown Selected Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA20584870
• ISBN:
  • 9780275940898
• LCCN: 92036546
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 253 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HX44.5
  • DC20 : 355/.009/049
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Socialism -- History
  • LCSH : Post-communism