Reviews for Beyond adversary democracy

The average rating for Beyond adversary democracy based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-09 00:00:00 Megan Edwards Giving this five stars because it answered all my questions going into it. How did Bolsheviks turn hostile to democracy? Were they ever committed? Whatever really happened to 'all power to soviets? How did Stalin's Totalitarianism come about and was it the logical conclusion of the revolution? This book also gave me a lot of clarity on what my stands should be from a leftists perspective. I did list them down and tbh most of them were contradictory so lets see where it goes! PS: reading about with what principles soviet legal system begun with was really cool.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-09-26 00:00:00 Ross Flathouse Anyone with the slightest understanding of political issues will know that ideas are one thing - implementing them is another. If the objective conditions or the social base giving rise to such ideas are undeveloped or destroyed, all the good intentions in the world will prove fruitless. So far, this book is providing an excellent source for anyone looking to chart the gradual erosion of soviet democracy after 1917. It will also provide a nasty surprise for simplistic pro-capitalist theorists that the Bolshevik party was not made up of cackling evil madmen, but that the process of degeneration affected soviet society as a whole, as opposed to stemming from the political machinations of a few "evil" men.