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• catalog abstract "In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published To the Finland Station, his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet to Lenin's triumphant return to Russia in a sealed train. Picking up where Wilson left off, Kenneth Murphy, in this sweeping historical investigation, follows the decline of Marxism from the beginning of the Revolution in October 1917, through its demise in the myriad revolutions of Eastern Europe in November 1989 and the failed putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991. This breakdown, as he shows, arose from the conviction that liberty and state control would be natural partners in the new utopian order. This belief fatally persuaded socialism's adherents that state violence could be tolerated, even managed, in the name of revolutionary change. In examining the lives of leading revolutionaries - Nicolai Bukharin, Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy, and Alexander Dubcek - and writers - Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and even the young Alexander Solzhenitsyn - who became prisoners rather than masters of the bloodshed their adherence to socialism seemed to unleash, Murphy reveals to us the terrible moral consequences they suffered as their faith in socialism crumbled. He compellingly shows how their idealistic vision spawned a world of want, anger, terror, and death. For blind obedience to the socialist cause allowed the new state to perpetuate, indeed to incarnate, the violence out of which it was born. In so doing, the idea of revolutionary liberty was devoured. Freedom surrendered to Stalinist terror, political innocence to Communist corruption, eloquence to the silence of the gulag. From Bukharin's death cell confession to Koestler's Darkness at Noon, from Dubcek's manacled summons to Moscow to Solzhenitsyn's jeremiads to the convulsions of perestroika and the disintegration of Gorbachev's rule, Murphy's interweaving of political and literary lives reveals not only the tragedy of faith in this century's most seductive ideology, but the folly of grafting abstract theories onto the lives of real people.".
• catalog contributor b3560129.
• catalog coverage "Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
• catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government.".
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "From Bukharin's death cell confession to Koestler's Darkness at Noon, from Dubcek's manacled summons to Moscow to Solzhenitsyn's jeremiads to the convulsions of perestroika and the disintegration of Gorbachev's rule, Murphy's interweaving of political and literary lives reveals not only the tragedy of faith in this century's most seductive ideology, but the folly of grafting abstract theories onto the lives of real people.".
• catalog description "In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published To the Finland Station, his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet to Lenin's triumphant return to Russia in a sealed train. Picking up where Wilson left off, Kenneth Murphy, in this sweeping historical investigation, follows the decline of Marxism from the beginning of the Revolution in October 1917, through its demise in the myriad revolutions of Eastern Europe in November 1989 and the failed putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991. This breakdown, as he shows, arose from the conviction that liberty and state control would be natural partners in the new utopian order. This belief fatally persuaded socialism's adherents that state violence could be tolerated, even managed, in the name of revolutionary change. ".
• catalog description "In examining the lives of leading revolutionaries - Nicolai Bukharin, Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy, and Alexander Dubcek - and writers - Andre Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and even the young Alexander Solzhenitsyn - who became prisoners rather than masters of the bloodshed their adherence to socialism seemed to unleash, Murphy reveals to us the terrible moral consequences they suffered as their faith in socialism crumbled. He compellingly shows how their idealistic vision spawned a world of want, anger, terror, and death. For blind obedience to the socialist cause allowed the new state to perpetuate, indeed to incarnate, the violence out of which it was born. In so doing, the idea of revolutionary liberty was devoured. Freedom surrendered to Stalinist terror, political innocence to Communist corruption, eloquence to the silence of the gulag. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Lenin decrees the Socialist order ; Bukharin sees Leviathan ; Bukharin embraces Leviathan ; Visions of the future : Vladimir Mayakovsky ; Stalin identifies socialism with violence ; Stalin identifies socialism with himself ; Leviathan devours Bukharin -- pt. 2. The decline of the revolutionary ideal ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : André Gide ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : Arthur Koestler ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : Ignazio Silone -- pt. 3. Enemies of the people ; Enemies of the people : Milovan Djilas ; Enemies of the people : Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution ; Enemies of the people : Khrushchev's secret speech ; Solzhenitsyn : the young prophet ; Solzhenitsyn : poet of the Gulag ; Solzhenitsyn decides to change the world ; Enemies of the people : Alexander Dubcek and the Prague Heresy ; Solzhenitzy : out of the archipelago -- pt. 4. Gorbachev : the young commissar from Privolnoye ; Gorbachev : idealogue and opportunist ; Gorbachev tries to live his history ; Gorbachev : failure of the will ; Gorbachev : ten months that shook the world ; Gorbachev : twilight of Leviathan ; Yeltsin dismantles the Socialist order.".
• catalog extent "xv, 415 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Retreat from the Finland Station.".
• catalog identifier "0029223156 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Retreat from the Finland Station.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Free Press ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
• catalog relation "Retreat from the Finland Station.".
• catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government.".
• catalog subject "335.43/09/04 20".
• catalog subject "Communism History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "HX40 .M848 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Lenin decrees the Socialist order ; Bukharin sees Leviathan ; Bukharin embraces Leviathan ; Visions of the future : Vladimir Mayakovsky ; Stalin identifies socialism with violence ; Stalin identifies socialism with himself ; Leviathan devours Bukharin -- pt. 2. The decline of the revolutionary ideal ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : André Gide ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : Arthur Koestler ; The decline of the revolutionary ideal : Ignazio Silone -- pt. 3. Enemies of the people ; Enemies of the people : Milovan Djilas ; Enemies of the people : Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution ; Enemies of the people : Khrushchev's secret speech ; Solzhenitsyn : the young prophet ; Solzhenitsyn : poet of the Gulag ; Solzhenitsyn decides to change the world ; Enemies of the people : Alexander Dubcek and the Prague Heresy ; Solzhenitzy : out of the archipelago -- pt. 4. Gorbachev : the young commissar from Privolnoye ; Gorbachev : idealogue and opportunist ; Gorbachev tries to live his history ; Gorbachev : failure of the will ; Gorbachev : ten months that shook the world ; Gorbachev : twilight of Leviathan ; Yeltsin dismantles the Socialist order.".
• catalog title "Retreat from the Finland station : moral odysseys in the breakdown of Communism / Kenneth Murphy.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".