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Boundaries of Utopia: Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin

Boundaries of Utopia: Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin

Van Ree, Erik

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0415703727
ISBN13: 9780415703727
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 5 2015
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The idea that socialism could be established in a single country was adopted as an official doctrine by the Soviet Union in 1925, Stalin and Bukharin being the main formulators of the policy. Before this there had been much debate as to whether the only way to secure socialism would be as a result of socialist revolution on a much broader scale, across all Europe or wider still. This book traces the development of ideas about communist utopia from Plato onwards, paying particular attention to debates about universalist ideology versus the possibility for socialism in one country. The book argues that although the prevailing view is that socialism in one country was a sharp break from a long tradition that tended to view socialism as only possible if universal, in fact the territorially confined socialist project had long roots, including in the writings of Marx and Engels.

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