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1 online resource (293 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: socialist imaginations; PART I The nineteenth-century socialist future; 1 Contested Christianities: communism and religion in July Monarchy France; 2 Religious dreams of a socialist future: the case of Owenism; 3 Beyond the 'grand designs': Owenism, architecture, and utopia; PART II Ideals for the working-class movement |
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4 "If that is Socialism, we won't help its advent": the impact of Edward Bellamy's utopian novel Looking Backward on socialist thought in late-nineteenth-century Western Europe5 Christian philanthropy, or political class struggle? Imaginations of Socialism and Christianity in Swedish prose fiction of the early 1900s; 6 'The omnipotence of spring': ideas of progress in Norwegian socialism before 1940; PART III The imagination of socialism in power; 7 Imaginations of insecurity: representations of the State Security Service in East German television in the late 1960s and 1970s |
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8 Frugal deaths: socialist imaginations of death and funerals in modern China9 Xi Jinping's China: keeping the imagination alive under socialism in power; Afterword: socialist cultures and sociabilities; Index |
| Summary |
This volume offers new perspectives on the appeal and profound cultural meaning of socialism over the past two centuries. It brings together scholarship from various disciplines addressing diverse national contexts, including Britain, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Taken together, the contributions highlight the aesthetic, narrative, and religious dimensions of socialism as it has developed through three broad phases in the modern era: early nineteenth-century beginnings, mass-based political organizations, and the attainment of state power in the twentieth century and beyond. Socialism did not attract millions of people primarily because of logical argument and empirical evidence, important though those were. Rather, it told the most compelling story about the past, present, and future. Refocusing attention on socialism's imaginative dimensions, this volume aims to revive scholarly interest in one of the modern world¹s most important political orientations |
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Utopian socialism -- History
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Socialism and religion -- History
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Socialism and society -- History
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Socialism and religion.
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Socialism and society.
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Utopian socialism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Communism.
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Josef Stalin.
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New Lanark.
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Socialism as Religion.
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Totalitarianism.
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Socialism and religion
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Socialism and society
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Utopian socialism
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Arvidsson, Stefan
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Kirsch, Anja
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| ISBN |
9781351536059 |
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1351536052 |
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9781351536042 |
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1351536044 |
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