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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Revel, Jean François. Totalitarian temptation. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977 (OCoLC)904053397 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean-François Revel |
| ISBN: | 0385122748 9780385122740 |
| OCLC Number: | 2969574 |
| Description: | 311 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | The communist counterrevolution. Socialism and its foes ; The totalitarian urge ; Why Salinism is advancing in the world ; The democratic misunderstanding ; The Socialist misunderstanding -- Of docility toward Stalinism : its manifestations and its consequences. The fear of anti-communism ; Unofficial Stalinism or Pidgin Marxism ; The excommunication of social democracy -- The suicide of the socialists or the indirect justification of totalitarian solutions. Excesses in the economic critique of capitalism ; The myth that democratic liberalism is utterly bankrupt ; The refusal to analyze the causes of failure -- State and reaction. The state as Narcissus ; Uniting the nine powers -- National totalitarianism or global socialism. Of docility toward Stalinism : an essay in explanation ; Toward a new socialism? |
| Other Titles: | Tentation totalitaire. |
| Responsibility: | by Jean-François Revel ; translated by David Hapgood. |
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