num_pages: 248
description: This work provides a wide-ranging re-evaluation of socialism as an ideology and a political movement. It addresses the nature of the socialist tradition, and puts into perspective the socialist project inaugurated by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It also examines the rise of Marxist-Leninist states, arguing that Marxism-Leninism became a doctrine of development with a practical political appeal to economically backward states.
language: English
title: The Rise and Fall of State Socialism: Industrial Society and the Socialist State
publisher: Polity