The Routledge History of Communism

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-51375-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Histories

The Routledge History of Communism offers a panoramic view of how our ways of studying Communism have changed radically since the 1990s, recognizing the more recent changes in our ways of studying it and asking new kinds of questions.

Communist ideas inspired revolutions, shaped governments, and guided the lives of millions of people all around the world throughout the twentieth century. Global in scope and covering a long time period, ranging from Communism’s intellectual beginnings to its contemporary legacies, this volume features the work of a diverse group of contributors trained in a wide variety of national contexts as well as in the use of transnational and comparative approaches.

Within this broad canvas, The Routledge History of Communism focuses on how politics interacted with individual experience. This book examines how politics played out inside the factory, the village, the family, or the school. It highlights the different ways Communism shaped the lives of ordinary people all over the world and the ways in which ordinary people shaped Communist movements and states. The authors’ focus on everyday communism allows them to highlight the centrality of race, gender, sexuality, and other identities to understandings of Communism’s appeal, its successes, and its failures.

This book will be of interest to students of Global History, Modern History, and Cultural Studies, as well as undergraduate instructors seeking a modern analysis of Communism.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feinberg, Melissa

Kirschenbaum, Lisa A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, 1. Utopian Empiricism: The Logics of Marxism and Communism, 2. Communism, Anticolonialism and Antiracism: The Comintern, Communists, and the Roots of a Global Revolutionary Campaign, 1919–1943, 3. Communism and Feminism: From Red Love to Maternal Welfare in Korea and Beyond, 4. Communism and Nationalism: Living with Ethnic Diversity, 5. The Bolshevik Revolution at Home and Abroad: Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 6. The Chinese Revolution at Home and Abroad: Travel, Intimacy, and the Fragile Networks of Revolutionary Development, 7. The Cuban Revolution at Home and Abroad: Difference and Deception, 8. Socialist Industrialization: Marxist Legacies, the Working Class, and the Revolutionary State in Russia and China, 9. Urbanization: The City as a Site of Radicalization, Revolution, and Reimagination, 10. Remaking the Countryside: Collectivization of Agriculture, 11. Marriage, Sex, and Family: From Equality and Collective Ideals to Individual Responsibilities in Socialist East Central Europe, 12. Revolutionizing Childhood: The Public Child and the Making of the New Socialist Person in China (1949-1976), 13. Public Health: Socialist Approaches to Vaccination, State, and Society, 14. Popular Music and Socialism: The Travels of Anna German, 15. Religion and Atheism: The Bureaucratic Turn in Soviet Antireligious Policies, 16. Policing and Terror: Imagining a Workers' Police in Interwar Europe, 17. Global Networks: Love and Work in the Communist International, 18. Antifascism and War: The Spanish Civil War as a Turning Point in International Communism, 19. Communist Experts Abroad: Balkan Experts in Africa—Solidarity and Development, 20. Anti-imperialism, Neocolonialism, and the Global Cold War: African Discourses, 21. Eurasian Communism in the Global History of Race: From Berlin to Beijing, 22. Espionage: The Chekist Model and the Creation of the Global National Security State, 23. Marketization and Consumerism: How Planned Economies Failed to Transition to Intensive Growth, 24. Communism and 1968: Youth Rebellions in Eastern Europe in the Global Sixties, 25. Dissent: The 1980 Elections and the Boundaries between Disagreement and Opposition in China, 26. The Environment: Pollution and Protest in a Central European Borderland, 27. Communism and 1989: Variegated Protests, Communist Repression, and Resilience in China, 28. World War II in Post-Soviet Space: Theater and Memory in Ukraine, 29. Communist Nostalgia and Its Discontents: The Hungarian Case, 30. Communism, Populism, and Ethnonationalism: The Road from Communism to Illiberalism in Eastern Europe, 31. Capitalism versus Communism: Reassessing the Conventional Historical Frame

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Feinberg is Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1950 (2006), Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe (2017), and Communism in Eastern Europe (2022).

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum is Professor Emerita of History at West Chester University, USA. Her research explores how ordinary people navigated the traumas of the twentieth century. Her most recent book is Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip (2024).