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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 December 2009
      26 August 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511612268
      9780521643481
      9780521643986
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612268
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 368 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 368 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Sociology
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    Sociology: General Interest, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Sociology
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    This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Professor Diakonoff's theory of world history differs from Marx's in a number of ways. Firstly he has expanded Marx's five stages of development to eight. Secondly he denies that social evolution necessarily implies progress and shows how 'each progress is simultaneously a regress', and thirdly he demonstrates that the transition from one stage to another is not necessarily marked by social conflict and that sometimes this is achieved peacefully and gracefully. As the book moves through these various stages, the reader is drawn into a remarkable and thought-provoking study of the process of the history of the human race which focuses on the wide range of factors (economic, social, military-technological, and socio-pyschological) which have influenced our development from palaeolithic times to the present day.

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    ‘ … a remarkable survey of world history by a Russian orientalist, using the Marxist interpretation as a point of departure.’

    Eric Hobsbawm Source: New Statesman and Society

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