Three faces of Marxism: The political concepts of Soviet ideology, Maoism, and humanist Marxism

by Wolfgang Leonhard

Three faces of The political concepts of Soviet ideology, Maoism, and humanist Wolfgang Three faces of The political concepts of Soviet ideology, Maoism, and humanist Holt, Rinehart and FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1974. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with toning to page ends. Dust jacket is very good. Seller 319049 History

497 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

German political author, publicist, and historian.

A former communist who fled to the Soviet Union in 1935, he became part of the "National Committee for the liberation of Germany". In 1945, he came back to East Germany as part of the "Ulbricht group", a special command of politicians and instructors.

In 1949, Leonhard defected from the Soviet Union and fled first to Yugoslavia and later to West Germany. Later he became a lecturer for the Columbia University and the Yale University as an expert on the Soviet Union.

In 1950 he co-founded the short lived Titoist Independent Workers Party Germany (UAPD) which has funded by Yugoslavia.

Reviews

[John]

Very good book by a flexible but committed author examining the possibilities of humanist Marxism associated with the early Castro state and Yugoslavia as well as the New Left and revived Trotskyist movements, Maoism as it actually existed in China, and stating what exactly Soviet ideology at the time (the '70s) consisted of. Leonhard was associated with the Yugoslav communist movement before emigrating to the U.S.

Castro once famously said, at the end of the Revolution, that what they represented was "Revolutionary Humanism".