Intellectual Radicalism after 1989 : Crisis and Re-orientation in the British and the American Left

Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a socialist...

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Main Author: Berg, Sebastian (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2017
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