num_pages: 654
description: This book reconstructs Marx and Engels's theory of freedom, highlights its centrality to their vision of the communist society of the future, traces its development in the history of Marxist thought (including Marxism-Leninism), and explains how it was transformed into a legitimation of totalitarian practices.
language: English
title: Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia
titlecomplete: Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia
genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics, Russia
ratings_count: 11
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
publisher: Stanford University Press