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Author: Raymond Taras

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The history of reform movements in postwar Eastern Europe is ultimately ironic, inasmuch as the reformers' successes and defeats alike served to discredit and demoralize the regimes they sought to redeem. The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it. Included here are essays by James P. Scanlan on the USSR, Ferenc Feher on Hungary, Leslie Holmes on the German Democratic Republic, Raymond Taras on Poland, James Satterwhite on Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Tismaneanu on Romania, Mark Baskin on Bulgaria, and Oskar Gruenwald on Yugoslavia. In concert, the contributors provide a comprehensive intellectual history and a veritable Who's Who of revisionist Marxism in Eastern Europe.

Acknowledgments p. vii
Contributors p. ix
The ""Meltdown"" of Marxism in the Soviet Bloc an Introduction p. 3
From Samizdat to Perestroika the Soviet Marxist Critique of Soviet Society p. 19
The Language of Resistance ""Critical Marxism"" Versus ""Marxism-Leninism"" in Hungary p. 41
The Significance of Marxist Dissent to the Emergence of Postcommunism in the Gdr p. 57
Marxist Critiques of Political Crises in Poland p. 81
Marxist Critique and Czechoslovak Reform p. 115
From Arrogance to Irrelevance Avatars of Marxism in Romania p. 135
Bulgaria from Critique to Civil Society? p. 151
Praxis and Democratization in Yugoslavia from Critical Marxism to Democratic Socialism? p. 175
Name Index p. 197
Subject Index p. 202
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