National Communism

Author : Peter Zwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429725081

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National Communism by Peter Zwick Pdf

According to the generally accepted view that nationalism is alien to communism and that internationalism disallows divisions based on nations, the existence of national communism is often interpreted as a sign of the breakup of the world communist movement. This book reexamines the evidence on the role of nations and national variations, beginning with Marx and moving through Leninism and Stalinism to Titoism, Maoism, Castroism, and current national liberation movements (e.g., in Nicaragua). Professor Zwick concludes that nationalism has always been an inherent element of communism. He demonstrates with numerous concrete cases that, rather than signaling the decline of communism, national adaptation is the source of its strength. The limits of national variation as defined by the Brezhnev Doctrine are precisely defined and examined in the cases of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The book bridges the gap between Marxist theory and communist practice with respect to the central role that nationalism will continue to play in the contemporary world. No other study presents this material in a cross-national, comparative perspective.

Author : Baruch Gurevitz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977360

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National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28 by Baruch Gurevitz Pdf

The Jewish Communist Workers' Party, the Poale Zion, provides a unique perspective on the question of how Marxism and the early Soviet Union dealt with issues of nationalism. According to Bolshevik ideology, when anti-Semitism disappeared in the new Socialist society, Jews would assimilate. In reality, such assimilation would be a very long, slow process. The Poale Zion supported the socialist struggle against oppression and exploitation of classes and nations, but it called for the formation of an international organization that would recognize the right of Jews to emigrate freely to Palestine and work for the creation of a democratic republic where people could retain their national identities and have both autonomy and representation in the union. Gurevitz analyzes the Soviet Poale Zion as representative of Jewish communism as nationalism in its purest form, and he traces the complex contradictions between Jewish nationalism and the Communist ideal of assimilation in the early years of the Soviet Union.

Author : James Earnest Mace
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4385959

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Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation by James Earnest Mace Pdf

Ukrainization originally meant active recruitment of Ukrainians into the Soviet state, but soon Ukrainian communists came to demand far greater self-determination than Moscow would tolerate. Those who made such demands in the 1920s were labelled "national deviationists," and the issues they raised engulfed the regime in a major political crisis.

Author : Alexandre A. Bennigsen,S. Enders Wimbush
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1980-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226042367

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Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union by Alexandre A. Bennigsen,S. Enders Wimbush Pdf

In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine—as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev—was the concept of "proletarian nations," as opposed to the traditional notion of a working class. With such ideological innovations, Sultan Galiev and his contemporaries were able to reconcile Marxist nationalisms and Islam and devise an "Eastern strategy" whereby the national revolution was to be spread. The authors show that the ideas of Muslim national communism persist in the land of their birth and have spread to such developing societies as China, Algeria, and Indonesia. This doctrine is an important factor in the ideological split and increasing tensions between industrial and nonindustrial nations, East and West, and now North and South, which grip the world communist movement.

Author : Howard Machin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0416734405

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National Communism in Western Europe by Howard Machin Pdf

Author : Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973140

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Nature and National Identity After Communism by Katrina Z. S. Schwartz Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis, it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as contrasting visions of the "ideal" rural landscape.The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international pressures on a small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental responsibility—notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional integration on the traditional nation-state.

Author : Malek Khouri
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552381991

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Filming Politics by Malek Khouri Pdf

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was created in 1939 to produce, distribute, and promote Canadian cinema both domestically and abroad. In Filming Politics, author Malek Khouri explores the work of the NFB during this period and argues that the political discourse of the films produced by this institution offered a counter-hegemonic portrayal of working class people and presented them as agents of social change. Filming Politics brings to light a number of films from the early years of the NFB, most of which have long been forgotten.

Author : Anna Holian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117802

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Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism by Anna Holian Pdf

In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although most of them quickly returned home, it soon became clear that large numbers of eastern European DPs could or would not do so. Focusing on Bavaria, in the heart of the American occupation zone, Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism examines the cultural and political worlds that four groups of displaced persons—Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish—created in Germany during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The volume investigates the development of refugee communities and how divergent interpretations of National Socialism and Soviet Communism defined these displaced groups. Combining German and eastern European history, Anna Holian draws on a rich array of sources in cultural and political history and engages the broader literature on displacement in the fields of anthropology, sociology, political theory, and cultural studies. Her book will interest students and scholars of German, eastern European, and Jewish history; migration and refugees; and human rights.

Author : Oleksa Drachewych,Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773559943

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Left Transnationalism by Oleksa Drachewych,Ian McKay Pdf

In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting colonial liberation, and promoting racial equality. Coinciding with the centenary of the Comintern's founding, Left Transnationalism highlights the different approaches interwar communists took in responding to these issues. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on the Communist International, individual communist parties, and national and colonial questions, this collection moves beyond the hyperpoliticized scholarship of the Cold War era and re-energizes the field. Contributors focus on transnational diasporic and cultural networks, comparative studies of key debates on race and anti-colonialism, the internationalizing impulse of the movement, and the evolution of communist platforms through transnational exchange. Essays further emphasize the involvement of communist and socialist parties across Canada, Australia, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America, South Africa, and Europe. Highlighting the active discussions on nationality, race, and imperialism that took place in Comintern circles, Left Transnationalism demonstrates that this organization - as well as communism in general - was, especially in the years before 1935, far more heterogeneous, creative, and unpredictable than the rubber stamp of the Soviet Union described in conventional historiography. Contributors include Michel Beaulieu (Lakehead University), Marc Becker (Truman State University), Anna Belogurova (Freie Universitat Berlin), Oleksa Drachewych (University of Guelph), Daria Dyakonova (Université de Montréal), Alastair Kocho-Williams (Clarkson University), Andrée Lévesque (McGill University), Lars T. Lih (Independent Scholar), Ian McKay (McMaster University), Sandra Pujals (University of Puerto Rico), John Riddell (Ontario Institute of Studies in Education), Evan Smith (Flinders University), S.A. Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State University), and Kankan Xie (Peking University).

Author : Baruch Gurevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:641001800

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National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28 by Baruch Gurevich Pdf

Author : J. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230377370

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The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917–23 by J. Smith Pdf

In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire. Making extensive use of previously unavailable material from the Soviet archives, Jeremy Smith explores the attempts of the Bolsheviks to promote the development of minority nationalities in the Soviet context, through a combination of political, cultural and educational measures, and looks at the disputes surrounding the creation of the Soviet Union.

Author : Paul Ernest Zinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:271701970

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National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe by Paul Ernest Zinner Pdf

Author : W. Kemp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230375253

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Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by W. Kemp Pdf

Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union looks at communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism between Marx and Yeltsin, how the inability of communist theorists and practitioners to achieve an effective synthesis between nationalism and communism contributed to communism's collapse, and what lessons that holds for contemporary Europe.

Author : Stephen Velychenko
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442617148

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Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red by Stephen Velychenko Pdf

In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of "national communism" in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian imperialism and colonialism. The first extended analysis of Russian communist rule in Ukraine to focus on the Ukrainian communists, their attempted anti-Bolshevik uprising in 1919, and their exclusion from the Comintern, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red re-opens a long forgotten chapter of the early years of the Soviet Union and the relationship between nationalism and communism. An appendix provides a valuable selection of Ukrainian Marxist texts, all translated into English for the first time.

Author : Harold Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4421406

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Communism, National and International by Harold Gordon Skilling Pdf

In nine studies which make up this book Professor Skilling analyses the development of the communist systems in the various countries of Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on developments following the 22nd Congress in 1961.