Bring on the hypnotist
Neal Ascherson, 12 March 1992
After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism
edited by Robin Blackburn.
Verso, 327 pp., £32.95, November 1991,0 86091 540 9 Show More
edited by Robin Blackburn.
Verso, 327 pp., £32.95, November 1991,
“... of the Bolshevik Revolution, allowing everyone to see how complicated and ‘reciprocal’ (E.P. Thompson’s word) that world order was. The Communist ‘threat’ induced the West to construct a new model of welfare capitalism based on full employment – the model whose utterly unforeseen ‘Thirty Glorious Years’ produced the most rapid and widespread ... ”