图书标签: 社会主义新人 海外中国研究 文化研究 政治史 近现代史 经验研究 社会史 新中国史
发表于2024-11-08
Creating the "New Man" pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse sociopolitical experiments―the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro―in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man."
The book’s fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society. To these ends, it addresses a number of questions: What are the intellectual roots of the new man concept? How was this idealistic and utopian goal linked to specific political and economic programs? How do the policies of these particular regimes, based as they are on universal communist ideology, reflect national and cultural traditions? Cheng begins by exploring the origins of the idea of human perfectibility during the Enlightenment. His discussion moves to other European intellectual movements, and then to the creation of the Soviet Man, the first communist new man in world history. Subsequent chapters examine China’s experiment with human nature, starting with the nationalistic debate about a new national character at the turn of the twentieth century; and Cuban perceptions of the new man and his role in propelling the revolution from a nationalist, to a socialist, and finally a communist movement. The last chapter considers the global influence of the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban experiments.
Creating the "New Man" contributes greatly to our understanding of how three very different countries and their leaders carried out problematic and controversial visions and programs. It will be of special interest to students and scholars of world history and intellectual, social, and revolutionary history, and also development studies and philosophy.
Yinghong Cheng is associate professor of history at Delaware State University.
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评分中规中矩。涉及了很多的内容,但是感觉在结论部分没做到精彩,只是简单进行了一下归纳分析。从这个角度上来说本书更像是一个提纲性的概述。一个人的思想能不能被改变实在是一个很大的话题啊……
评分中规中矩。涉及了很多的内容,但是感觉在结论部分没做到精彩,只是简单进行了一下归纳分析。从这个角度上来说本书更像是一个提纲性的概述。一个人的思想能不能被改变实在是一个很大的话题啊……
评分中规中矩。涉及了很多的内容,但是感觉在结论部分没做到精彩,只是简单进行了一下归纳分析。从这个角度上来说本书更像是一个提纲性的概述。一个人的思想能不能被改变实在是一个很大的话题啊……
评分中规中矩。涉及了很多的内容,但是感觉在结论部分没做到精彩,只是简单进行了一下归纳分析。从这个角度上来说本书更像是一个提纲性的概述。一个人的思想能不能被改变实在是一个很大的话题啊……
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Creating the "New Man" pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024