Vejas Liulevicius

Or when do you reach the point where some shift or some adaptation is so radically different that it actually breaks with the tradition? And that's an insoluble problem. You probably have to take it on a case-by-case basis. It speaks to issues like the question that gets raised today. Is China, in a meaningful sense, a communist country anymore? And there's a diversity of opinion on this score.

Or when do you reach the point where some shift or some adaptation is so radically different that it actually breaks with the tradition? And that's an insoluble problem. You probably have to take it on a case-by-case basis. It speaks to issues like the question that gets raised today. Is China, in a meaningful sense, a communist country anymore? And there's a diversity of opinion on this score.

Or if you're looking at the history of communism and you look at North Korea – which now is on its third installment of a dynastic leader from the same family who rules like a god-king over a regime that calls itself communist, is that still a form of communism? Is it an evolution of? Is it a complete reversal of?

Or if you're looking at the history of communism and you look at North Korea – which now is on its third installment of a dynastic leader from the same family who rules like a god-king over a regime that calls itself communist, is that still a form of communism? Is it an evolution of? Is it a complete reversal of?

Or if you're looking at the history of communism and you look at North Korea – which now is on its third installment of a dynastic leader from the same family who rules like a god-king over a regime that calls itself communist, is that still a form of communism? Is it an evolution of? Is it a complete reversal of?

I tend to want to take an anthropological perspective in the history of communism and to take very seriously Those people who avow that they are communists and this is the project that they have underway. And then after hearing that avowal, I think as a historian, you have to say, well, let's look at the details.

I tend to want to take an anthropological perspective in the history of communism and to take very seriously Those people who avow that they are communists and this is the project that they have underway. And then after hearing that avowal, I think as a historian, you have to say, well, let's look at the details.

I tend to want to take an anthropological perspective in the history of communism and to take very seriously Those people who avow that they are communists and this is the project that they have underway. And then after hearing that avowal, I think as a historian, you have to say, well, let's look at the details.

Let's see what changes have been made, what continuities might still exist, whether there's a larger pattern to be discerned here. So it's a very, very complicated history that we're talking about.

Let's see what changes have been made, what continuities might still exist, whether there's a larger pattern to be discerned here. So it's a very, very complicated history that we're talking about.

Let's see what changes have been made, what continuities might still exist, whether there's a larger pattern to be discerned here. So it's a very, very complicated history that we're talking about.

Well, clearly it was a compelling case for millions of people. And part of this story has to do with, overall has to do with the faith, conviction, stories of people sacrificing themselves as well as their countrymen in a cause that they believed was not just legitimate, but demanded their total obedience.

Well, clearly it was a compelling case for millions of people. And part of this story has to do with, overall has to do with the faith, conviction, stories of people sacrificing themselves as well as their countrymen in a cause that they believed was not just legitimate, but demanded their total obedience.

Well, clearly it was a compelling case for millions of people. And part of this story has to do with, overall has to do with the faith, conviction, stories of people sacrificing themselves as well as their countrymen in a cause that they believed was not just legitimate, but demanded their total obedience.

I think that throughout the early part of the 20th century, late 19th century, early part of the 20th century, So much of the compelling case for communism came from the confidence that people in the West more generally placed in science. The notion that science is answering problems. Science is giving us solutions to how the world around us works, how the world around us can be improved.

I think that throughout the early part of the 20th century, late 19th century, early part of the 20th century, So much of the compelling case for communism came from the confidence that people in the West more generally placed in science. The notion that science is answering problems. Science is giving us solutions to how the world around us works, how the world around us can be improved.

I think that throughout the early part of the 20th century, late 19th century, early part of the 20th century, So much of the compelling case for communism came from the confidence that people in the West more generally placed in science. The notion that science is answering problems. Science is giving us solutions to how the world around us works, how the world around us can be improved.

some varieties of that, and watch the quotation marks, science, were crazy, right? Like phrenology, so-called scientific racism that tried to divide humanity up into discrete blocks and to manipulate them in ways that were allegedly scientific or rational. So there were horrors that followed from Those invocations of science, but its prestige was enormous.

some varieties of that, and watch the quotation marks, science, were crazy, right? Like phrenology, so-called scientific racism that tried to divide humanity up into discrete blocks and to manipulate them in ways that were allegedly scientific or rational. So there were horrors that followed from Those invocations of science, but its prestige was enormous.

some varieties of that, and watch the quotation marks, science, were crazy, right? Like phrenology, so-called scientific racism that tried to divide humanity up into discrete blocks and to manipulate them in ways that were allegedly scientific or rational. So there were horrors that followed from Those invocations of science, but its prestige was enormous.