The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy

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This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly polarising effect at that time of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy does not settle for one safe interpretation of the thought of this world-historic figure but rather revels in a clash of viewpoints. Most interestingly it presents a contrast between the Western editors who emphasise pure democracy and Marxian humanism with many of the contributing scholars who take a more sanguine view of the Leninist political project. Perhaps reflecting the current Western political crisis, some of the volume’s other European and North American scholars more closely align with their colleagues from the Global South. Key Features: · Places particular emphasis on the key elements of Lenin’s thought – the dictatorship of the proletariat (which is trenchantly defended), the nature of the dialectic and the New Economic Policy · Additional comprehensive coverage includes the theory of the party, Bolshevism, imperialism, and the class struggle in the countryside · Examines the relation of Lenin’s thought to the ideas of his most influential contemporaries (including Luxemburg, Stalin and Trotsky) as well as the most eminent thinker to interpret Lenin since his death – György Lukács This Handbook is essential reading for scholars, researchers and advanced students in political philosophy, political theory, the history of political ideas, economics, international relations and world history. It is also ideal for the general reader who wishes to understand some of the most powerful ideas that have shaped the modern world and that may yet shake the world again. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction (Tom Rockmore)....Pages 1-59 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Which Kind of Dialectician Was Lenin? (Vesa Oittinen)....Pages 63-88 Lenin’s Philosophy in Intellectual Context (Daniela Steila)....Pages 89-120 Lenin and Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism (Marina F. Bykova)....Pages 121-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 Engels’ Co-option of Lenin (Norman Levine)....Pages 161-199 Luxemburg and Lenin (Peter Hudis)....Pages 201-229 Lenin and Trotsky (Michael Löwy, Paul Le Blanc)....Pages 231-256 Lenin and Stalin, Theory and Politics (Wladislaw Hedeler)....Pages 257-280 Lukács as Leninist (Tom Rockmore)....Pages 281-310 Front Matter ....Pages 311-311 Lenin on Socialism and the Party in the Long Revolution (Neil Harding)....Pages 313-352 Lenin’s Conception of the Party (Natasha Gómez Velázquez)....Pages 353-380 A Few Questions Concerning Lenin’s Conception of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat ( An Qinian)....Pages 381-400 “Extracting the Democratic Kernel”: Lenin and the Peasants (Alan Shandro)....Pages 401-429 The Impact of the SPD Model on Lenin and Bolshevism (Lars T. Lih)....Pages 431-456 Lenin and Imperialism (Alex Callinicos)....Pages 457-482 Lenin and the New Economic Policy (Edward A. Rees)....Pages 483-506 NEP, the Logical Sequel to the Bolshevik Seizure of Power (Paresh Chattopadhyay)....Pages 507-530 Lenin’s NEP and Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reform ( Wei Xiaoping (魏小萍))....Pages 531-548 Back Matter ....Pages 549-562