Socialism as a secular creed : a modern global history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Znamenski, Andrei A., 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Socialism as a Secular Creed
  • Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Socialism Studies and Socialism as a Modern Political Religion
  • Utopians, Marxists, Anarchists, and Ethno-Nationalism
  • How Do We Name It? "Socialism," "Communism," and "Social Democracy"
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1
  • Religion of Modernity
  • "Rational Brethren of the West": Robert Owen, New Harmony and Socialist Halls of Science
  • "Conspiracy of Equals" and the "New Christianity" of Henri Saint-Simon
  • Comte's Religion of Humanity and Saint-Simonian Apostles
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2
  • "Sabbath of History"
  • Toward "Scientific Socialism": Marx, Engels, and Hess
  • "Scientific" Magic and Communist Millennium: Marx and Engels Invent the Proletariat
  • Marx and Engels Purge Anarchist Heretics
  • How to Assimilate a Peasant Commune into Marxism: Marx and Russian Populist Seekers
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3
  • Great Schism
  • Socialist Organizer and Womanizer: The Fast Life of Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Reforming the Creed: Bernstein Revisionism and Fabians
  • Radical Cosmopolitans: Lenin, Luxemburg, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
  • State of the Future: "War Socialism" to "War Communism," 1914-1918
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4
  • Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s
  • "Red Jesuits": Bolshevik Dreams of the World Revolution, 1917-1923
  • From the Communist International to Socialism in One Country, 1919-1929
  • "Our Own People": Making of Jewish Socialist Identity
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5
  • National Bolshevism
  • Cannibalizing the Countryside: Collectivization and Industrialization, 1929-1933
  • Stalinist Social Engineering and the Great Terror, 1934-1939
  • Late Stalinism, 1940sc-1953sc
  • Political Religion of Marxism-Leninism
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6
  • True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s)
  • Ludwig von Mises and "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" (1920)
  • "Perfect Equilibrium": How OSKAR Lange "Defeated" Friedrich Hayek, 1930s
  • F.A. Hayek, George Orwell, and the Left Mainstream
  • Light from the East: Western Fellow Travelers
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7
  • Creating Community
  • Emergence of German National Socialism
  • Hitler's Willing Beneficiaries
  • "Socialism of the Race": Nazi Ideology
  • Politics of Nazi Studies: From National Socialists to Nazi
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8
  • "Regime of Goodness"
  • Between Marx and Keynes: European Social Democracy Search for the "Third Way"
  • Building "People's Home" in Sweden
  • "Swedish Socialism" and Its Fate
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9
  • Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert
  • From Eastern Europe to Palestine: Populists, Folk Community, and Socialist Zionism
  • Kibbutz Settlements and the Religion of Labor
  • The Culture of Nationalist Socialism