LEADER 02820nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910453983303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611973360 010 $a1-281-97336-X 010 $a1-59213-923-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000693220 035 $a(EBL)410851 035 $a(OCoLC)476233550 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000171902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11178163 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000171902 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150607 035 $a(PQKB)11318296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC410851 035 $a(OCoLC)316066690 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15362 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL410851 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10275524 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL197336 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000693220 100 $a20080314d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe historiography of communism$b[electronic resource] /$fMichael E. Brown 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59213-921-3 311 $a1-59213-922-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Communism, society, and history -- History and history's problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part one : identifying the problem -- Issues in the historiography of communism, part two : some principles of critical analysis -- Ideology and the metaphysics of content -- "Society against the state" : the fullness of the primitive -- Left futures (with Randy Martin) -- Rethinking the crisis of socialism (with Randy Martin). 330 $aIn this fresh appraisal of communism and anti-communism, with an emphasis on the American case, respected scholar Michael E. Brown examines the methods, controversies and difficulties involved in writing the history of communism. Arguing that one important way of understanding communism-other than as a concrete political or ideological force-is as an expression of an essentially reflexive aspect of society that typically manifests itself in social movements. In this regard, Brown understands the history of communism as part of the history of society. Examining works by E. P. Thompson, Kar 606 $aCommunism$xHistory 606 $aCommunism$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistoriography. 676 $a355.4072/2 700 $aBrown$b Michael E$096345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453983303321 996 $aThe historiography of communism$92481133 997 $aUNINA