{"product_id":"one-against-all-lenin-and-his-legacy-hardcover","title":"One Against All: Lenin and His Legacy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Echaverren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter decades of misinformation during the Soviet period, we can today, with historical hindsight and a better grasp of old and new sources, appraise what Lenin's government meant for Russia and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout Lenin, the alternative models of totalitarian dictatorships in the 20th century, so aptly characterized this way by Hannah Arendt, would have been unthinkable. In what some have called \"the Russian century,\" the Soviet regime was an unflinching enemy to parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, the market economy, civil rights and free speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenin destroyed politics understood as a process of dialogue and negotiation, and implemented a policy of terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberto Echavarren is a poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he studied philosophy and law. He then pursued graduate studies in philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Paris VIII. Echavarren taught at the University of London before a twenty-year career teaching at New York University. He has published five novels, notably his last three short novels combined under the title \u003ci\u003eArchipiélago (Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e). He was awarded the 2021 Amado Alonso International Prize of Literary Criticism for his book \u003ci\u003eEl pensamiento chino\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Chinese Thought).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120581808263,"sku":"9781680534481","price":85.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/84df5bf920bc5ea219a3042543bac448.webp?v=1732548158","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/one-against-all-lenin-and-his-legacy-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}