Heaven On Earth Heaven On Earth
Brief Encounters

Heaven On Earth

The Rise and Fall of Socialism

    • $17.99

Publisher Description

"

Socialism was man’s most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man.” Each failure inspired new searches for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World socialism. None worked, and some exacted staggering human tolls. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.

In Heaven on Earth, Joshua Muravchik traces this fiery trajectory through sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse. We see such dreamers and doers as the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, whose “Conspiracy of Equals” were the first to try to outlaw private property; Robert Owen, who hoped to plant a model socialist utopia in the United States; Friedrich Engels, who created the cult of Karl Marx and “scientific” socialism; Benito Mussolini, self proclaimed socialist heretic and inventor of Fascism; Clement Attlee, who rejected the fanatics and set out to build socialism democratically in Britain; Julius Nyerere, who merged social democracy and communism in the hope of making Tanzania a model for the developing world; and Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Tony Blair, who became socialism’s inadvertent undertakers.

Muravchik’s accomplishment in Heaven on Earth is to tell a story filled with character and event while at the same time giving us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside down—and for a time succeeded.
"

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2003
November 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
391
Pages
PUBLISHER
Encounter Books
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
2
MB
Collected Works of Leon Trotsky. Illustrated Collected Works of Leon Trotsky. Illustrated
2021
The Proud Tower The Proud Tower
1982
Personality and Power Personality and Power
2022
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
1995
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
2014
Soviet Tragedy Soviet Tragedy
2008
Heaven on Earth Heaven on Earth
2019
Making David into Goliath Making David into Goliath
2014
Liberal Oasis Liberal Oasis
2014
Making David into Goliath Making David into Goliath
2015
Obama's Radical Transformation of America: Year One Obama's Radical Transformation of America: Year One
2010
Trailblazers of the Arab Spring Trailblazers of the Arab Spring
2013
In Praise of Prejudice In Praise of Prejudice
2007
Culture Counts Culture Counts
2007
Architects of Power Architects of Power
2010
History Upside Down History Upside Down
2007
Media Madness Media Madness
2009
Americas Secular Challenge Americas Secular Challenge
2010