CONTENTS

1. Paul Auerbach: On Socialist Optimism
2. Bruce Jesson: The Disintegration of a Labour Tradition: New Zealand Politics in the 1980s
3. Eric Hobsbawm: The Crisis of Today's Ideologies
4. Peter Osborne: Modernity is a Qualitative, Not a Chronological Category
5. Boris Kagarlitsky: Russia on the Brink of New Battles
6. Ken Livingstone: Can Democracy Survive in Russia?

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   1. Paul Auerbach,
      ‘On Socialist Optimism’
   2. Bruce Jesson,
      ‘The Disintegration of a Labour Tradition: New Zealand Politics in the 1980s’
   3. Eric Hobsbawm,
      ‘The Crisis of Today's Ideologies’

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   1. Peter Osborne,
      ‘Modernity is a Qualitative, Not a Chronological Category’
   2. Boris Kagarlitsky,
      ‘Russia on the Brink of New Battles’
   3. Ken Livingstone,
      ‘Can Democracy Survive in Russia?’

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