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This work traces the trajectory of socialism from its early idealism, through the horror of Stalinism to its demise in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. The author describes idealists and activists such as the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, who was first to try to outlaw private property; Robert Owen, who hoped to plant a model socialist utopia in the United States; Clement Atlee, who set out to build socialism democratically in Britain; to Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Tony Blair, who became socialism's inadvertent undertakers.Product Identifiers
PublisherMethuen Publishing LTD
ISBN-139781842750940
eBay Product ID (ePID)87725680
Product Key Features
Publication Year2004
SubjectSociology, Politics
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHeaven on Earth: the Rise and Fall of Socialism
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoshua Muravchik
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height236 mm
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJoshua Muravchik