Martin Malia (1924–2004)
Författare till Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia
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The late Martin Malia taught at the University of California, Berkeley
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Malia, Martin Edward
- Födelsedag
- 1924-03-14
- Avled
- 2004-11-19
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- Oakland, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- California, USA
- Utbildning
- Yale University (BA - French)
Harvard University (MA, PhD - History) - Yrken
- assistant professor (History, Harvard)
professor (History, Berkeley) - Organisationer
- United States Navy
Library of Congress
Harvard University (1954-1958)
University of California, Berkeley (1958-1991)
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The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in… av Martin Malia
A well thought out critique of Soviet Socialism from the early beginnings and origins to the, some say inevitable, downfall.
Un travail de réflexion sur les causes profonde de l'échec soviétique. Rien de novateur mais utile.
Perhaps my favorite book. This was the book that began my interest in Soviet history and intellectual history in general. Well-written and lucid. The author, an anti-revisionist historian of the Soviet Union stresses the importance of ideology in Soviet history.
Malia necessarily brief history of the Soviet Union is invaluable. He traces the trajectory of Socialism as it moved first away from market economics then when failure loomed, revived limited markets and price setting. Once breathing room was restored, back to building Socialism and suppressing markets. Malia shows how the series of Terrors hammered the populations of the Soviet Union into the mold that made them tools to be used and disposed of by the Party.
In parallel, I read Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: a History" and reading and comparing the evolution of the Gulag in lock step with the developments in larger Soviet command state made clear the fact that all Soviet citizens occupied a vast prison. The Gulag merely was a prison within a prison, able and willing to requisition bodies as needed from the outer prison whenever some more blood was needed to grease the wheels of the Train of History.… (mer)
In parallel, I read Anne Applebaum's "Gulag: a History" and reading and comparing the evolution of the Gulag in lock step with the developments in larger Soviet command state made clear the fact that all Soviet citizens occupied a vast prison. The Gulag merely was a prison within a prison, able and willing to requisition bodies as needed from the outer prison whenever some more blood was needed to grease the wheels of the Train of History.… (mer)
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