State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-Capitalist Alternatives

Bartha, Eszter, Krausz, Tamás, Mezei, Bálint

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-28
  • 售價: $5,090
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,836
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 334
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031225066
  • ISBN-13: 9783031225062
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商品描述

This volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to address the long theoretical, conceptual and political debate on the interpretation of "actually existing" socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the major paradigms - totalitarianism, neo-totalitarianism, revisionism, post-revisionism, modernization, and the world-system analysis - are well known in the Western (English-language) literature, the concept of state socialism, which has strong theoretical roots in Hungary (going back to the works of György Lukács and István Mészáros) received less international attention. This book contributes to a productive discussion about viable alternatives to capitalism by introducing and theoretically elaborating on the concept and practice of state socialism, highlighting the historical significance of Hungary's experiment with the "new economic mechanism" of 1968. It generates a common point of reference for various generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant today for the global left.

The chapter "Dance Around a 'Sacred Cow' Women's Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


商品描述(中文翻譯)

本卷匯集了一群多元的學者,旨在探討有關「實際存在的」社會主義在蘇聯和東歐的長期理論、概念及政治辯論。雖然在西方(英語文獻)中,總體主義、neo-totalitarianism、修正主義、後修正主義、現代化及世界體系分析等主要範式已廣為人知,但國家社會主義的概念卻較少受到國際關注,儘管它在匈牙利有著深厚的理論根基(可追溯至György Lukács和István Mészáros的著作)。本書透過引介並理論性地闡述國家社會主義的概念及實踐,為資本主義提供可行的替代方案,並突顯匈牙利在1968年進行的「新經濟機制」實驗的歷史意義。它為不同世代的反體系思想家、學者及活動家提供了一個共同的參考點,以超越冷戰時期的簡化與意識形態分歧,並促進有關反資本主義替代方案的討論,這些方案在當今全球左派中仍具相關性。

章節「圍繞一頭『神聖的牛』的舞蹈:國家社會主義匈牙利及國際間的女性夜間工作與大眾工人的性別政治」可在link.springer.com上以創用CC署名-非商業性-禁止改作4.0國際授權條款開放存取。

作者簡介

Eszter Bartha is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. She has published extensively on the state socialist era and the working class.

Tamás Krausz is Professor Emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He is an internationally renowned scholar of the Soviet and Russian history in the 20th century, with a special focus on the history of left-wing ideas.

Bálint Mezei is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The main subjects of his publications are the interparty relations of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Eurocommunism and studies based on oral history.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Eszter Bartha 是匈牙利布達佩斯厄爾特大學的副教授。她在社會主義時代和工人階級方面發表了大量著作。

Tamás Krausz 是匈牙利布達佩斯厄爾特大學的名譽教授。他是20世紀蘇聯和俄羅斯歷史的國際知名學者,特別專注於左翼思想的歷史。

Bálint Mezei 是匈牙利布達佩斯厄爾特大學的副教授。他的主要出版主題包括匈牙利社會主義工人黨的黨際關係、歐洲共產主義以及基於口述歷史的研究。