Böcker av Robert C. Tucker

In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation

In Karl Marx's early writing (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework

Stalinism was a system that embraced all facets of political and social life. In this book numerous scholars present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of comparative Communist studies, from history and politics, to economics, sociology, and literary scholarship.

In this volume Robert C. Tucker looks critically at the later writings of Marx and Engels, not only as political theory but as the ideology for political revolution. From the vantage point established in his earlier work--that there is a continuity underlying Marx's writing from the newly discovered manuscripts of 1844 to the mature work, Capital--Professor Tucker examines Marx as a social, moral, and political theorist, and a theorist of modernization. "The Marxian Revolutionary Idea" is followed, in thought and application, through infancy to maturity, in success and failure, and finally as it has been transformed by modern socialism.

Karl Marx's early writing sets out his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Taking full account of these earlier writings, this book critiques and reinterprets Marx's thought.

"Tucker has achieved a real break-through ... his analysis throws a flood of light into previously obscure corners... Tucker with his analysis of Stalin's personality structure has opened up an enormously promising vein of research," -Robert M. Slusser, American Historical Review

"To my mind, the most significant single scholarly contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."-George F. Kennan