Shturman, Dora

[SIGNED] "Nash novyi mir": teoriia, eksperiment, rezul'tat [Our New World: Theory, Experiment, Result]

Ierusalim: Lexikon, 1981. First edition. Item #1424

368 pages. 21 cm. In the original publisher’s illustrated wrappers. Signed copy. A very good copy with slight edgewear and minor foxing.

A major political and philosophical critique of Soviet Marxism-Leninism, written by Soviet émigré theorist and essayist Dora Moiseevna Shturman (1923–2012). Originally circulated in samizdat under the pseudonym V. E. Bogdan in 1968–1969, this expanded and updated edition incorporates reflections and statistical appendices from the 1970s. The work methodically dismantles Soviet ideological doctrine from within its own premises, tracing the internal contradictions of Marxist rhetoric, policy, and logic. With a scholarly tone that avoids polemicism, Shturman’s intellectual project is rooted in sincere inquiry, having emerged—by her own admission—not as a rejection but as a critical evolution from within the Marxist tradition.

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