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Until we fall : long distance life on the left
- Title
- Until we fall : long distance life on the left / Helena Sheehan.
- Author
- Sheehan, Helena
- Publication
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- 357 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Most westerners glimpsed the breakup of the Soviet Union at a great distance, through a highly distorted lens which equated the expansion of capitalism with the rise of global democracy. But there were those, like Helena Sheehan, who watched more keenly and saw a world turning upside down. In her new autobiographical history from below, Until We Fall, Sheehan shares what she witnessed first-hand and close-up, as hopes were raised by glasnost and perestroika, only to be swept away in the bitter and brutal counterrevolutions that followed"--
- Subject
- Sheehan, Helena > Political activity
- Since 1945
- Communism > History
- Women communists > Biography
- Women philosophers > Biography
- Women college teachers > Biography
- Communism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Political participation
- Women college teachers
- Women communists
- Women philosophers
- Europe, Eastern > History > 1989-
- Soviet Union > History > Influence. > 1985-1991
- Europe, Eastern > History > 1945-1989
- Eastern Europe
- Soviet Union
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The world turned upside down -- The new world order -- Another brick in the wall -- The dictatorship of capital -- Under African skies -- No surrender.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-2063
- ISBN
- 9781685900274
- 1685900275
- 9781685900281
- 1685900283
- 9781685900298 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023032846
- OCLC
- 1375057779
- Author
- Sheehan, Helena, author.
- Title
- Until we fall : long distance life on the left / Helena Sheehan.
- Publisher
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- Since 1945
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sheehan, Helena. Until we fall New York : Monthly Review Press, [2023] 9781685900298 (DLC) 2023032847
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-2063