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The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins - Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s (Paperback)
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The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins - Imagining Utopia, 1870s - 1920s (Paperback)
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Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the
socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time
of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for
an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova
brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context
in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the
character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from
essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at
Europe's Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical
emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or
entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings,
and different flows of historical time. The study provides a social
and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an
emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and
strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had
a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy.
Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500
biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses
the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the
specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and
transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection
between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of
archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources
including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A
microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction
of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of
individuals.
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