Hanson Stephen. Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions

Chapel Hill; London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. — 276 p. — ISBN-10: 0807846155; ISBN-13: 978-0807846155.Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991.Traditional, Modern, and Charismatic Time
Time in the Works of Kant and Hegel
The Theoretical Cycle: From Marx to the Second International
The Political Cycle: From Lenin to the End of the NEP
The Socioeconomic Cycle: From Stalin to the "Era of Stagnation"
Gorbachev's Perestroika and the Charismatic-Rational Conception of TimeNotes

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