Russia's Communists at the Crossroads
This book is about the evolution of the communist movement in the Russian Federation from the last years of the U.S.S.R.'s existence through Russia's presidential elections of June july 1996, when the chief contenders were the incumbent president, Boris N. Yeltsin, and his communist challenger, Gennadii A. Ziuganov. Our main protagonist is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or CPRF as it is commonly called. But the CPRF was a latecomer to the post-Soviet communist playing field. Its formal establishment came only in February 1993, well after the formation of a number of more doctrinaire communist parties which initially competed with the CPRF and influenced its political profile and conduct in numerous, if not always readily apparent, ways. All of these new Russian CPs emerged from the rubble of what had been the mighty and supposedly monolithic Communist Party ofthe Soviet Union (CPSU). On the Marxist-Leninist political spectrum, however, the range of the official positions espoused by these post-Soviet neocommunist groups was more comparable to that of the international communist movement as a whole in the post-Stalin era than to the CPSU under Nikita S. Khrushchev and Leonid I. Brezhnev.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813329310
ISBN13:9780813329314
Release Date:April 1997
Publisher:Routledge
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Cool stuff for commiephiles
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I'm taking Professor Urban's class on Soviet history, particularly recent political history, at Catholic University and we haven't even been assigned this book yet, but I really enjoy it. It's extremely interesting to see how people who lived under a distorted version of Marxism reconcile history with Marx's theories and ideology. The book is great, good for anyone who wants an epilogue to the history of the Soviet Union.
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