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French Instituions: Values and Politics
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FRENCH INSTITUTIONS
Values and Politics
By Saul K. Padover with collaboration from Francois Goguel, Louis Rosenstock-Franck, and Eric Weil
Publishered in 1947, this is one of a group of four related studies on French politics and society planned for the Hoover Institute Studies. This group also includes a study of national character by Rhoda Metraux and Margaret Mead, and two studies of French political symbolism and elites by Daniel Lerner and the RADIR staff. These, together with Mr. Padover's study of French political institutions and values, may give the reader an overview of the dynamics of modern France as a participant in the world political community.
Dean Padover's volume, worked out in collaboration with three prominent French scholars, surveys the conflicting values in the traditions of the French Revolution and French conservatism. It then examines what has happened to these values under the impact of twentieth-century social problems, war, and defeat. This study was initiated as part of the RADIR Project (Revolution and the Development of International Relations), of which
Mr. Padover was a consultant.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original:
Title: French Institutions
Author: Saul K. Padover
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1947
ISBN: 080473271X
The Critique of Ultra-Leftism in China, 1958-1981
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The Chinese political system has undergone a profound transformation since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, and nowhere is this more evident than in the effort to exorcise the influence of the ultra-Leftism that is alleged by the current Chinese leadership to have characterized much of the last two decades of the Maoist era.
The author places the post-Mao assault on radicalism into the historical and ideological perspectives of earlier critiques of ultra-Leftism within the Marxist tradition and the Chinese Communist Party. He traces the evolution of the critique in the writings of Marx, Engels, Lemin, and Mao and carefully examines three anti-Leftist criticism and rectification campaigns in recent Chinese history: the retreat from the Great Leap Forward of 1958-61, the campaign against “Swindlers like Liu Shaoqi” carried out in 1971-73 after the death of Lin Biao, and the criticism of the Gang of Four following their purge in 1976. These cases are analyzed in terms of both the political conflict surrounding each campaign and the ideological issues raised by the critique of the ultra-Leftism.
Understanding the nature and extent of the critique of ultra-Leftism helps to clarify the ideological world in which the Chinese leaders operate, to explain some of the most perplexing events in the history of the People’s Republic, and to assess the changes that continue to shape the political environments of post-Mao China.
William A. Joseph is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.
This is a reproduction edition based on a scan of the following original edition:
The critique of ultra-leftism in China, 1958-1981
By William A. Joseph
Published by Stanford University Press, 1984
ISBN 0804712085, 9780804712088
312 pages
Contents
The Critique from Marx to Mao 22
ultra-Left , Li Lisan , Lenin
The Origins of the Incomplete Critique 62
Lushan , Peng Dehuai , Zhengzhou
The Critique of the Great Leap Forward 82
relations of production , people's communes , Zhengzhou
The Campaign 120
Chen Boda , Zhou Enlai , Jiang Qing
The Campaign 151
fake Left , Left opportunist , Hua Guofeng
The UltraLeftism of Lin Biao and the Gang 183
Mao Zedong Thought , class struggle , Dazhai
The Critique of UltraLeftism and Chinas 220
anti-Rightist campaign , counterrevolution , ultra-Left line
Notes 247
ultra-Left , ECMM , FBIS-CHI
Bibliography 293
Index 305
Tientsin , Chinese Communist , American
Vera Zasulich : A Biography
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This is the first complete biography in any language of the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, who gained worldwide prominence in 1878 by walking into the office of the brutal General Trepov, Governor of St. Petersburg, and shooting him. Acquitted by a sympathetic jury, she escaped to Western Europe, where she became a Marxist and spent the next quarter-century tirelessly preaching the revolutionary cause and trying to keep the peace among Russian socialists and populists. Although she returned to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, she was too ill and discouraged by her failure to unite the various revolutionary factions to remain politically active.
Zasulich embodies many important characteristics of the Russian revolutionaries of her time. Some had their positive side: the disenchantment with autocratic rule that caused the intelligentsia to turn against the state; the peculiarly Russian penchant for carrying ideas to their logical conclusion, as in the shooting of Trepov; the conviction that the affluent and the educated must take the lead in redistributing society’s resources. But there were also, inevitably, the ravages that revolution inflicted on the lives of those who adopted it as a profession: the disillusionment, the broken friendships, the damaged psyches. In 1919, two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, which she condemned, Vera Zasulich died poor and virtually friendless in Petrograd.
Jay Bergman is Assistant Professor of History at Albright College.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Vera Zasulich: a biography
Author Jay Bergman
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1983
ISBN 0804711569, 9780804711562
Length 261 pages
New cover image courtesy of Cherry Bomb Comics, New Zealand (cherrybombcomics.co.nz)
