... Bolshevism communism social democracy USSR References Anderson Perry . 2016 . “ The Heirs of Gramsci ”. New Left Review , no. 100 : 71 – 97 . Benjamin Walter . [1940] 1968 . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History .” In Illuminations , edited by Arendt Hannah , translated...

...-Soviet conflict, the Chinese proposed that he form a battalion of emigrants to help the Chinese armies fight the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). As he recounted in his memoirs, he agreed without a moment’s hesitation, since it meant fighting against ‘‘the 8...

... that in the USSR their city was often labeled Belyi or Belogvardeiskii Harbin (White or White Guard Harbin), and its residents were described as belobandity (White bandits). After a visit to Harbin one Soviet writer wrote, ‘‘If there was a competition to find a Russian name...

... based on the needs of productive units and consumers. As Donald Filtzer makes clear in his excellent book Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialization, in the USSR the managers responsible for carrying out the plan set by high-level administration had nothing that could replace the labor discipline...

... of the Russian empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia in order to understand, in relation to the West, current dilemmas in Russian scholarship and intellectual trends. My main argument can be summarized as follows...

.... 1977 . What Is to Be Done? Vol. 5 of Collected Works , translated by Fineberg Joe Hanna George . Moscow : Progress . Zedong Mao . 1977 . “ Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR .” In A Critique of Soviet Economics , translated by Roberts Moss...

... differently in Western, capitalist coun- tries than in Russia or the USSR and their colonies. Consequently, liberal ideals in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras function as the counterpart of Marx- ist ideals in the West (see Joseph Dzhaloshinsky’s essay in this issue). In the West, Marxism offered...

... reasons. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) considered it to have been organized by the US Central Intelligence Agency (wrongly, as it now appears). In truth, the United States was caught by surprise by the events, quickly pulled back its support, and allowed the USSR to regain control...

... of the same early 1970s wave that accompanied the crisis of the planner-state (Negri [1971] 2005) as well as of the Leninist image of the party with an intense revision of the legacies of the USSR in construction, Robert Linhart s Lenin, the Peasants and Taylor (1976) sought to locate in the economic...

.... English transla- tion of this quotation is from CDW, The Transformation of Social Relations. Interna- tional Review no. 85, 1996. References Allen, Robert C. 2011. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. Arthur, Christopher. 2002. Epitaph for the USSR...

... To inhibit nuclear proliferation between two waning empires, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), diplomats and activists crafted new vocabulary. Mutual assured destruction (MAD) was coined as the language of rational-minded Westerners seeking to preserve what...

... and rejected on the subconscious level. Lacking overseas colonies, Russia and later the USSR used their own peasants in place of overseas ‘‘savages creating fortunes on a much smaller scale, and hence it was only natural that the very features and the very role that were associated with otherness...

... possibility of global nuclear destruction, the col- lapse of the USSR opened a void in the order of peace that pointed to the 6 possibility of absolute U.S. sovereignty. It was in the face of that opening that the United States arrogated to itself the leading role...

... centered in the Pentagon could be moved in case of a nuclear attack. As one historian of the conception and construction of cold war command and control bunkers puts it, “By 1948 however, as a consequence of President Truman’s declaration that the USSR was ‘a clear and present threat to the USA...

.... There have been vicious conflicts around regional separatism (the Biafra conflict of the late sixties, the USSR in Chechnya), interventions in neigh- bouring states to restore stability (Tanzania and Uganda), and, most notice...

... interpretation, but as an emotionally empowering state. (256) The result is a situation in which “the line between facts and statements [are] increasingly ignored” (258).1 In e­ect, deliberative reason (is an impover- ished and exhausted USSR actually a serious threat to American national security...

... Sarah . 2014 . In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Shaw Claire L. 2017 . Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Shevchenko Olga . 2009 . Crisis...

... Federation (GARF) , Moscow , Archive 2313, list 6, file 304 . Tcherneva Irina . 2014 . “ Le cinéma de non-fiction en URSS: Création, production et diffusion (1948–1968)” (“Nonfiction Cinema in the USSR: Creation, Production, and Distribution [1948–1968]”) . PhD diss. , École des Hautes Études...

... clearly what we want and how we are going to reach it” (in Goldman 1990: reel 17). A romantic belief in the magic power of revolution had utterly failed in the nascent Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), because the needed “economic and social preparation,” the “will to construc- tive work...

... ‘‘Vietnamsthose of the United States and of the USSR—were limited conflicts, and even the truly horrendous war between Iraq and Iran, longer than World War II, was not a ‘‘world’’ conflict. One does not have to endorse Hegel’s...