The Mind And Face Of Bolshevism

Author : René Fülöp-Miller
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787205093

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First published in 1927, this is the English translation of German author René Fülöp-Miller’s account of non-political developments under the Bolshevist regime. It thoroughly examines cultural life in the Soviet Union and illustrates, through rich use of photographs throughout, how the mechanistic theory—freed from the control of individualism and individualistic religion, or what the author calls ‘a collective man’—applies itself to decorative design, literature, monumental art, the theatre, music, and education. A revealing book which everyone should read. “The best and most profound book on Bolshevism which has hitherto appeared outside Russia. Fülöp-Miller’s examination is very objective and many-sided.” -NICOLAS BERDYAEV “The most comprehensive book on the non-political side of Bolshevism which, to our knowledge, has so far been published. It is a serious study of the social, philosophical, artistic, religious, and economic antecedents and consequences of Bolshevism, deriving its value not only from an obviously wide acquaintance with the literature of the Subject, but also from the fact that the writer has fortified his reading by firsthand study of and residence in Soviet Russia.”—The Times [London] Literary Supplement “This book is a profound psychological and social study of a movement which must be examined historically and scientifically rather than tested by the political tenets and beliefs to which other countries have for centuries been habituated. No one interested in modern Russia can afford to leave this book unread.”—Asiatic Review (London) “...it treats Bolshevism, not from the standpoint of politics or economics, but in its wider aspect, as a new way of life or a new religion. There is the most praiseworthy attempt at objectivity, and the information in the book is exceedingly interesting.” -BERTRAND RUSSELL

Author : Rene Fulop-Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494114410

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This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

Author : Rene Fulop-Miller
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298580269

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The Mind and Face of Bolshevism by Rene Fulop-Miller Pdf

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Author : René FUELOEP-MILLER,Frank Stewart Flint,Dorothy Fraser TAIT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:561000818

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The Mind and Face of Bolshevism ... Translated ... by F. S. Flint and D. F. Tait by René FUELOEP-MILLER,Frank Stewart Flint,Dorothy Fraser TAIT Pdf

Author : René FUELOEP-MILLER,Frank Stewart Flint,Dorothy Fraser TAIT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:561000831

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The Mind and Face of Bolshevism ... (Translated by F. S. Flint and D. F. Tait.) With a New Epilogue ... and a New Bibliography, 1962. [With Plates.]. by René FUELOEP-MILLER,Frank Stewart Flint,Dorothy Fraser TAIT Pdf

Author : Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400888177

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The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine Pdf

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Author : Michael David-Fox
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 080143128X

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Revolution of the Mind by Michael David-Fox Pdf

Content Description #Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547062578

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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell Pdf

"The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism" is a critical work on socialism by the British social critic Bertrand Russell. He wrote this book shortly after visiting the Soviet Union following the Russian Revolution. As a socialist, he would find and describe the positive sides of the new socialist order. In reality, he didn't like what he saw. Instead of a new kind of democracy, one not corrupted by the power the capitalists had over democracy in the West, he saw a new kind of dictatorship. The new order combined aspects of the French Revolution with the Islamic religion during the life of Muhammad. Although Bolsheviks claimed they had established the dictatorship of the proletariat, Russel saw it as a dictatorship of Vladimir Lenin, who had never been a plant worker.

Author : David Ayers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748647347

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Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution by David Ayers Pdf

Explores the impact of the Russian Revolution and League of Nations on British modernist culture.

Author : Michael David-Fox
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501705380

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Revolution of the Mind by Michael David-Fox Pdf

Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains how new communist institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher learning from the Academy of Sciences to the universities. Beginning with the creation of the first party school by intellectuals on the island of Capri in 1909, David-Fox argues, the Bolshevik cultural project was tightly linked to party educational institutions. He provides the first account of the early history and politics of three major institutions founded after the Revolution: Sverdlov Communist University, where the quest to transform everyday life gripped the student movement; the Institute of Red Professors, where the Bolsheviks sought to train a new communist intellectual or red specialist; and the Communist Academy, headquarters for a planned, collectivist, proletarian science.

Author : Martin Alan Miller,Professor Martin A Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300068107

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Freud and the Bolsheviks by Martin Alan Miller,Professor Martin A Miller Pdf

This study explores Freud's influence in Russia during the 20th century, discussing the lives of the Russian Freudians. The author concludes that the oscillations in Russian attitudes toward Freud during Soviet rule reflected shifting tensions within Russian culture at large.

Author : Claire Bishop
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844677962

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Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop Pdf

This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an essential title for contemporary art history scholars and students as well as anyone who has . . . thought, ‘Now that’s art!’ or ‘That’s art?’” (Library Journal) Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as “social practice.” Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawel Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling, and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.

Author : Wyndham Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0876859511

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The Enemy by Wyndham Lewis Pdf

Author : J. de V. Loder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351629645

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Bolshevism in Perspective by J. de V. Loder Pdf

Originally published in 1931 this volume is a level-headed account of the Bolshevik Revolution and Bolshevist Russia which covers the whole ground of the Revolution, the early history of Bolshevism and the state of Russia in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Based on two visits by the author to Russia, the book presents a picture in which real problems are set against an historical background, examining life under Bolshevism and examining it as a working system.

Author : Paul R. Josephson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780801898419

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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? by Paul R. Josephson Pdf

After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, ”I have seen the future, and it works.” Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and peasant—figuratively and literally—into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea—and other leaders—joined Russia’s Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and conviction that rivaled the western world's. Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology—and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive. Instead of achieving a worker’s paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual—and exhausting—burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of communism’s self-proclaimed glorious quest to "reach and surpass" the West. Josephson’s intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions about the crucial issues inextricably linked with the development and diffusion of technology in any sociopolitical system.