The Invention of Marxism
How an Idea Changed Everything
$116.24
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2024
Summary
When he died in 1883, Karl Marx left behind an intellectual legacy of formidable proportions and revolutionary potential, yet one that exerted limited actual political, social, or economic influence. The full force of his ideas did not come into play for another generation, and only after they had been appropriated and applied by some of Marxism’s earliest proponents. The history of Marxism, in other words, is the story of those who brought Marx’s ideas into play, transforming a sweeping but …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190062736 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0190062738 |
| Author: | Christina Morina, Elizabeth Janik |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 900g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
Critics Review
“Morina’s pen-portraits - fine-grained, deftly interlinked - are superb. Forgotten figures, such as Adler and Struve, are coaxed back into the sunlight, famous ones - Lenin, Kautsky, Luxemburg - reimagined” – Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement
Christina Morina
Christina Morina is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bielefeld. Her research focuses on major themes in 19th and 20th century German and European history, especially World War II, the Holocaust and bystander history, political and memory cultures in Germany since 1945, the history of Marxism, and the history of historiography.
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