Introduction and Background.- Stalin’s Bible.- Babel Versus Pentecost: On the Question of Linguistic Diversity.- The Delay of Communism.- A Materialist Doctrine of Good and Evil: Revising Marxist Anthropology.- Party and People, or Transcendence and Immanence.- Towards a Theory of the Socialist State.- Conclusion: Between Veneration and Demonization.
Roland Boer is a distinguished overseas research professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing, and research professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Among numerous works on Marxism, religion and philosophy, he has published the five-volume work, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth (2007-14). In 2014 he was awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. He has also published Lenin, Religion, and Theology (2013) and is director of the ‘Socialism in Power’ international research project.
“By utilizing Christian Theology, Boer is able to synthesize a new understanding of the thoughts and writings of Stalin that is both comprehensive and rigorous. It is here that I would like to claim, ‘If you want to understand Stalin and the U.S.S.R. in which he presided over, then there is no better book.’” (Dalton Winfree, Marx and Philosophy, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, September, 2018)
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