Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Cent..., Timothy Snyder
Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Cent..., Timothy Snyder
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Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe
A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905

Author: Timothy Snyder

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 13 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/30/2018


Synopsis

Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central Europe and France. His central ideas ultimately were not accepted by the socialist mainstream at the time of his death. However, a century later, we see that they anticipated late twentieth-century understanding on the importance of nationalism as a social force and the parameters of socialism in political theory and praxis. Kelles-Krauz was one of the only theoreticians of his age to advocate Jewish national rights as being equivalent to, for example, Polish national rights, and he correctly saw the struggle for national sovereignty as being central to future events in Europe. This was the first major monograph in English devoted to Kelles-Krauz.

About Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder is Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author and editor of numerous award-winning and bestselling books, including The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999; Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine; The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke; Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin; Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning; and On Tyranny.


Reviews

This is the first time I’ve read a biography that was written as a doctoral dissertation, and that was an experience I didn’t know I was getting myself in for! Given the academic nature of the text, which is very outside my areas of expertise (marxism, socialism, Polish political history around the......more

Goodreads review by Paige

Who would have thought that a lot of second international Polish Socialists from the early 1900s would have such a vibrant philosophical and literary political culture? Awesome book on the life of Kazimierz Krauz a Polish Socialist thinker and activist who died in 1905 whose life in Poland made him......more

Goodreads review by Maks

Za często autor ulega pokusie znacznego odbiegania od tematu - tytułowego bohatera.......more

Goodreads review by Bohdan

An excellent examination of the competing claims of socialism and nationalism at the turn of the 20th century, through the prism of biography. Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz was a brilliant revolutionary thinker and one of the founders of the Polish Marxism, who also grappled with the national question in a......more

Goodreads review by Kris

I listened to this on audiobook after reading Snyder's Bloodlands. The narrator (Norman Dietz) was great and the biography was thorough, if dry. I'd never heard of Kelles-Krauz, described as a "Polish thinker" (to be described as a "thinker" should probably be a goal) and the intersection of nationa......more