Political Lessons from the Soviet Experiment

Maybe the younger generation did not witness it, but a 74-year-old shocking experience took place in our world. It describes this experience, which lasted from 1917 to 1991 and was known by names such as "Soviets", "real socialism", "socialist bloc", "iron curtain", with some of its tendencies, especially in its early and final periods, and the "political lessons" to be learned from it. a book Political Lessons from the Soviet Experiment.

In this study, which was first published in 1989, Metin Çulhaoğlu first examines the studies in the section extending from the 1920s to the 1930s.

It focuses on the industrialization drive with NEP and collectivization practices, and then on glasnost and perestroika policies in the period from 1985 to 1989.

Along with economic moves, obligations and impasses, ideological moves and weaknesses come to the fore most in Çulhaoğlu's narrative.

Right and left “deviations” in different periods; Different approaches of Bolshevik leaders such as Bukharin, Preobrazhensky, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin to certain problems of socialism; searches for “mass support” for periodic policies; those who stand out in the politics of one period are "wasted" in the political climate of the next period; the dissolution of the “workers-peasants alliance”; Ideological weaknesses of the staff in the party administration and institutions such as the "science academy", etc. Other prominent topics of Political Lessons from the Soviet Experiment…

In the author's words, "Especially in the Soviet experiment, full engagement in extreme moments involves great risks, and history always shows this." The book ends with an accounting of the glasnost and perestroika period, which we can call "the last extreme moment."

To understand a 74-year-old experience that has passed through our world and to protect possible new experiences from its weaknesses...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition