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Reconstructing Lenin - An Intellectual Biography (Paperback)
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Reconstructing Lenin - An Intellectual Biography (Paperback)
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential
figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are
crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist
movement, generations of writers on the left and the right have
seen fit to embalm him endlessly with superficial analysis or
dreary dogma. Now, after the fall of the Soviet Union and
"actually-existing" socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin
afresh, with sober senses trained on his historical context and how
it shaped his theoretical and political contributions.
Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in the making and now available
in English for the first time, is an attempt to do just that. Tamas
Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of
Gyoergy Lukacs, Ferenc Tokei, and Istvan Meszaros, makes a major
contribution to a growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This
rich and penetrating account reveals Lenin busy at the work of
revolution, his thought shaped by immediate political events but
never straying far from a coherent theoretical perspective. Krausz
balances detailed descriptions of Lenin's time and place with lucid
explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of
topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy,
socialism and utopianism.Reconstructing Lenin will change the way
you look at a man and a movement; it will also introduce the
English-speaking world to a profound radical scholar.
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