Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy

by Claude Lefort

Complications is a brilliant study of the nature of communist totalitarianism pursued through the criticism of the recent work of two neo-liberal historians, Francois Furet and Martin Malia. Their books, The Passing of an Illusion and The Soviet Tragedy respectively were enthusiastically received in the West and, in Lefort's view, have drastically and harmfully oversimplified the nature of the Soviet regime and the nature of the support for it in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231133006
• ISBN13: 9780231133005
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher