In the end, then, the volume confirms that psychiatry in Communist Eastern Europe was moved by most of the same dilemmas and enthusiasms faced by its Western counterparts. Volker Hess, for instance, tells us that over-crowded facilities and a lack of funding for outpatient treatments, not party doctrine, were responsible for leading authorities in East Germany to rely on sedatives for handling ...

Continuing revelations about Joseph Stalin’s reign have led many historians to rank him the greatest mass murderer of our century and possibly of all time. But a growing body of evidence indicates that they are probably mistaken: Mao Zedong, the dictator of Communist China for nearly thirty years, appears to have outdone his Russian counterpart after only a dozen years in power. Two recent book...

This article seeks to contextualise the ‘Heideggerian’ or destructive critique against Lenin in 1980s. The hypothesis I develop is based on Oscar Del Barco’s Leninism and theoretical moments which this has been resisted by other Latin American thinkers. Barco one of leading philosophers America. His extraordinary effectiveness reconstructs history thought Bolshevik leader order abandon leader’s...

Abstract Focusing on David B. Riazanov career and his pioneering efforts in producing a complete edition of the works Marx Engels, article explains why Riazanov’s variety Marxism was unacceptable to Soviet regime, from 1924 Lenin credited with being an outstanding Marxist theoretician, whereas previously he had been regarded only as skilled political activist. The concept Leninism new stage put...