Overview
- Provides a comprehensive picture of Marx’s relations to Russia
- Discusses the actual problems of globalization by using Russia as the paragon
- Offers a new and original interpretation of Marx’s theoretical development
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book discusses Marx’s relations with Russia, which have always been ambivalent. In his youth, and indeed a good way into the 1860s, Marx might even be called a “Russophobe.” Around 1870, however, his views on Russia undergo a change; he becomes acquainted with a new kind of Russian radical and revolutionary movement and begins to study Russian. It becomes clear that Marx begins to feel that Russia is some kind of a “touchstone” for his theories. Offering a new and original interpretation of Marx’s theoretical development, Marx’s Russian Moment analyzes the following themes: Marx’s concept of ideology (as developed in the German Ideology) and its fortunes in Russia; Marx’s encounter with Bakunin and Russian nihilism; Marx’s and Engels’s studies of primitive societies; Engels’s views of the developmental perspectives of small Slavic nations; and Marx’s views on Finland, the Russian Grand Duchy. Considering these topics as “case studies,” Oittinen argues that Marx’s encounter with Russia substantially influenced Marx’s (and Engels’s) views not just on current political and economic matters but also on a philosophical and methodological level.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vesa Oittinen is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Russian Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marx's Russian Moment
Authors: Vesa Oittinen
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29662-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29661-1Published: 18 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29664-2Due: 18 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29662-8Published: 17 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History