The Conceptual Basis of the Marxist-Leninist Regimes of East Germany and Other Countries of the Soviet Bloc
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Imagine being forced to adopt an ideology that strips you of your political rights and plunges you into a life of despair and unending shortages. After the Second World War, the people of East Germany endured just such an appalling fate when socia...
"Professor Sperlich has written a lucid and comprehensive critique of the theoretical and methodological core of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, as practiced in the USSR and Eastern Europe."-George W. Breslauer University of California, Berkeley ?[S]perlich sheds new light here on complex and contentious issues within the confines of a remarkably compact volume, greatly improving our understanding of the origins, decline, and disintegration of communist systems. He also demonstrates the courage to wrestle with the timeless questions of the relationship between religious and utopian impulses, the pursuit of power, and the difficulty of gratifying the great variety of contradictory needs and aspirations human beings harbor.?-Modern Age ?Rotten Foundations contributes to the sparse Western literature in English about the GDR....Recommended. Graduate and research collections.?-Choice "YSperlich sheds new light here on complex and contentious issues within the confines of a remarkably compact volume, greatly improving our understanding of the origins, decline, and disintegration of communist systems. He also demonstrates the courage to wrestle with the timeless questions of the relationship between religious and utopian impulses, the pursuit of power, and the difficulty of gratifying the great variety of contradictory needs and aspirations human beings harbor."-Modern Age "Rotten Foundations contributes to the sparse Western literature in English about the GDR....Recommended. Graduate and research collections."-Choice "[S]perlich sheds new light here on complex and contentious issues within the confines of a remarkably compact volume, greatly improving our understanding of the origins, decline, and disintegration of communist systems. He also demonstrates the courage to wrestle with the timeless questions of the relationship between religious and utopian impulses, the pursuit of power, and the difficulty of gratifying the great variety of contradictory needs and aspirations human beings harbor."-Modern Age
Peter W. Sperlich is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a member of the Program in Law and Society. He has written extensively on legal and conflict issues.
Introduction Roots and Developments Science or Anti-Science Utopia and Religion Theory and Practice The Issue of Totalitarianism Summary Bibliography Index