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Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities (Perspectives on the Global Past)
Yinghong Cheng
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Description for Creating the "New Man": From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities (Perspectives on the Global Past)
Hardcover. Examines three culturally diverse socio-political experiments - the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro - in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man." Series: Perspectives on the Global Past. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a new man has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse socio-political experiments - the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro - in an attempt to better ... Read more
The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a new man has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse socio-political experiments - the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro - in an attempt to better ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Perspectives on the Global Past
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824830748
SKU
V9780824830748
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About Yinghong Cheng
Yinghong Cheng is associate professor of history at Delaware State University.
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