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  Title

  Main currents of Marxism : the founders, the golden age, the breakdown

  Author

  Kolakowski, Leszek.  

  Publisher:

  W.W. Norton & Co.,

  Pub date:

  c2005.

  Pages:

  xxiv, 1284 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0393060543

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HX36 .K61813 2005	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0393060543 (hardcover)

  ISBN:

  9780393060546 (hardcover)

  Personal Author:

  Kolakowski, Leszek.

  Uniform title:

  [Glówne nurty marksizmu. English]

  Title:

  Main currents of Marxism : the founders, the golden age, the breakdown / Leszek Kolakowski ; translated from the Polish by P.S. Falla.

  Publication info:

  New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005.

  Physical description:

  xxiv, 1284 p. ; 25 cm.

  General Note:

  Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1978.

  Contents:

  v. 1. The founders -- v. 2. The golden age -- v. 3. The breakdown.

  Review:

  "Drawing on powerful historical and philosophical insight, Main Currents of Marxism traces the intellectual foundations of Marxist thought from Plotinus through Hegel to Lukacs, Sartre, and Mao. Leszek Kolakowski reveals Marxism to be "the greatest fantasy of our century ... an idea that began in Promethean humanism and culminated in the monstrous tyranny of Stalinism." Long before the overwhelming majority of historians, journalists, and intellectuals around the world came to see the devastation wrought by autocratic, state-sponsored socialism, Kolakowski pointed to the shortcomings of a system doomed to failure." "Recognized when it was first published for its profound historical insights and for its exposition of how the Communist hierarchy was quickly corroding from the inside, this forceful work has influenced several generations of scholars and historians. Despite decades of major political change, Main Currents of Marxism remains as accurate and incisive as ever. In a new preface and epilogue, Kolakowski reexamines the collapse of international Communism in light of the last tumultuous years."--BOOK JACKET.

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  TODD

  Personal subject:

  Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

  Personal subject:

  Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.

  Subject term:

  Socialism--Europe--History.

  Subject term:

  Communism--Europe--History.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Falla, P. S. (Paul Stephen), 1913-

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  http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020823.html

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