Sartre Against Stalinism

by Ian H. Birchall

Book Overview

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a large extent, to their equation of Marxism with Stalinism. It is true that Sartre was guilty of many serious misjudgements with regard to the USSR and the French Communist Party. But his relationship with the Marxist Left was much more complex and co tradictory than most accounts admit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571815422
• ISBN13: 9781571815422
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"