Bureaucracy and revolution in Eastern Europe

by Chris Harman

Book by Harman, Chris

Genres: Politics, History

296 pages, Hardcover

First published November 20, 1974

About the author

British journalist and political activist for the Socialist Workers Party.

Harmann was involved with activism against the Viet Nam war but became controversial for denouncing Ho Chi Minh for murdering the leader of the Vietnamese Trotskists.

Harman's work on May 1968 in France and other student and workers uprisings of the late 1960s, The Fire Last Time, was recommended by rock band Rage Against the Machine in their album sleeve notes for Evil Empire.

Reviews

[Rory Gee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found the chapter on Czechoslovakia a bit confusing but overall a wonderful book. Which sees the true spirit of socialism not in the so called ‘socialist’ states of Eastern Europe but in the working class revolts against them. The particular strength of the state capitalist analysis of these economies is to provide an economic basis for each crisis and subsequent revolt.

[Eugene Plawiuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

A MUST READ ALONG WITH ANDY ANDERSON HUNGARY 56