Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
(Part of the Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Series)
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Complications is a brilliant study of the nature of communist totalitarianism pursued through the criticism of the recent work of two neo-liberal historians, Francois Furet and Martin Malia. Their books, The Passing of an Illusion and The Soviet Tragedy respectively were enthusiastically received in the West and, in Lefort's view, have drastically and harmfully oversimplified the nature of the Soviet regime and the nature of the support for it in the interests of providing a historiographical complement to the aggressive neo-liberal consensus of the present day. Lefort, who has always insisted on the relevance of the critique of totalitarianism to the renewal of the left, detects in the authors he surveys a neo-liberal bias that corrupts their interpretation both of the nature and of the lasting significance of the communist regime. It matters a great deal how autopsies of the Soviet Union are conducted because they imply what range of alternatives there is to its failed and criminal enterprise.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231133006
ISBN13:9780231133005
Release Date:June 2007
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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