Enduring Socialism

<p> Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic political and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic political and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.</p>