Heaven on Earth The Rise and Fall of Socialism

Name: Heaven on Earth The Rise and Fall of Socialism
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ISBN: 9781893554788

ISBN-10: 1893554783

ISBN-13: 9781893554788

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Authors: Joshua Muravchik

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Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in 'science'. Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to 'the New Man'. Each failure inspired new searches for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World socialism. None worked, and some exacted staggering human tolls. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls and…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 11/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 391
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Joshua Muravchik lives in Maryland with his family.



Prologue: Changing Faiths


Beginnings



Conspiracy of Equals: Babeuf plots a revolution



New Harmony: Owen conducts an experiment



Scientific Socialism: Engels interprets the oracle



What Is to Be Done? Bernstein develops doubts


Triumphs



Real Existing Socialism: Lenin seizes power



Fascism: Mussolini becomes a heretic



Social Democracy: Attlee takes the slow road



Ujamaa: Nyerere forges a synthesis


Collapse



Union Card: Gompers and Meany hear a different drummer



Perestroika and Modernization: Deng and Gorbachev repeal communism



The Party of Business: Blair redefines social democracy


Epilogue: The kibbutz goes to market


Appendices


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index