Rotten Foundations The Conceptual Basis of the Marxist-Leninist Regimes of East Germany and Other Countries of the Soviet Bloc

Subjects:

• Political Science » Comparative Politics
• Political Science » Political Philosophy
• History » European History -- Modern/20th Century
• Multicultural Studies » Slavic Studies

Reviews:

• Rotten Foundations contributes to the sparse Western literature in English about the GDR....Recommended. Graduate and research collections.
  —Choice September 2003
• [S]perlich sheds new light here on complex and contentious issues within the confines of a remarkably compact volume, greatly improving our understanding of the origins, decline, and disintegration of communist systems. He also demonstrates the courage to wrestle with the timeless questions of the relationship between religious and utopian impulses, the pursuit of power, and the difficulty of gratifying the great variety of contradictory needs and aspirations human beings harbor.
  —Modern Age Winter/Spring 2004

• Endorsement From George W. Breslauer
  University of California, Berkeley: Professor Sperlich has written a lucid and comprehensive critique of the theoretical and methodological core of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, as practiced in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Roots and Developments
• Science or Anti-Science
• Utopia and Religion
• Theory and Practice
• The Issue of Totalitarianism
• Summary
• Bibliography
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Greenwood History Spring 2008.pdf