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Socialism as a Secular Creed

A Modern Global History

By: Andrei Znamenski

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Socialism as a Secular Creed

A Modern Global History

By: Andrei Znamenski

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498557317

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Red Shambhala

Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

By: Andrei Znamenski

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Red Shambhala

Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

By: Andrei Znamenski

Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly different glimpse of early Soviet history both erudite and fascinating. Using archival sources and memoirs, he explores how spiritual adventurers, revolutionaries, and nationalists West and East exploited Shambhala to promote their fanatical schemes, focusing on the Bolshevik attempt to use Mongol-Tibetan prophecies to railroad Communism into inner Asia. We meet such characters as Gleb Bokii, the Bolshevik secret police commissar who tried to use Buddhist techniques to conjure the ideal human; and Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter who, driven by his otherworldly Master and blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police, posed as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama to unleash religious war in Tibet. We also learn of clandestine activities of the Bolsheviks from the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Communist International who took over Mongolia and then, dressed as lama pilgrims, tried to set Tibet ablaze; and of their opponent, Ja-Lama, an “avenging lama” fond of spilling blood during his tantra rituals.

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Quest Books

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Red Shambhala

Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

By: Andrei Znamenski

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Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia

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Socialism as a Secular Creed

A Modern Global History

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The Beauty of the Primitive

Shamanism and the Western Imagination

By: Andrei A. Znamenski

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Shamanism and the Western Imagination

By: Andrei A. Znamenski

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Russian Colonization of Alaska

From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867

By: Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv

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Russian Colonization of Alaska

From Heyday to Sale, 1818–1867

By: Andrei Val’terovich Grinëv

Maritime officers at the head of Russian America -- The hunting-trading activities of the RAC in 1825-40 -- The Russian colonies in the 1840s -- Russian America in the 1850s -- The Russian colonies in the 1860s and the sale of Alaska to the United States.

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U of Nebraska Press

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The Beauty of the Primitive

Shamanism and Western Imagination

By: Andrei A. Znamenski

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Shamanism and Western Imagination

By: Andrei A. Znamenski

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. The Beauty of the Primitive explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the eighteenth-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. The major characters of The Beauty of the Primitive are past and present Western scholars, writers, explorers, and spiritual seekers with a variety of views on shamanism. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, Znamenski details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. He also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, Znamenski examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. He discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore. A work of intellectual discovery, The Beauty of the Primitive shows how scholars, writers, and spiritual seekers shape their writings and experiences to suit contemporary cultural, ideological, and spiritual needs. With its interdisciplinary approach and engaging style, it promises to be the definitive account of this neglected strand of intellectual history.

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Oxford University Press

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Book's by Andrei Znamenski

Socialism as a Secular Creed

Socialism as a Secular Creed

Red Shambhala

Red Shambhala

Red Shambhala

Red Shambhala

Socialism as a Secular Creed

Socialism as a Secular Creed

The Beauty of the Primitive

The Beauty of the Primitive

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Russian Colonization of Alaska

The Beauty of the Primitive

The Beauty of the Primitive

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