The Disintegration of the Monolith keyword-colonial-settlers From her operational-base-cum-family-home

From her operational-base-cum-family-home

Surveying ideas of the state

offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past

includes a foreword by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan

In it he for the first time discusses the problem of the political causes of Stalinism

The Disintegration of the Monolith keyword-colonial-settlers From her operational-base-cum-family-homeIn this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite. Kagarlitsky shows that Western commentators have been misled by the street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He