Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. — 488 p. — ISBN10: 0822957043; ISBN13: 978-0822957041.
In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory.
Introduction: Marxism and Russia
Marxism as Eschatology
The Janus-Faced Messiah
The "Intelligentsia": Vicissitudes of the Notion
The Making of the "New Intelligentsia"
Classes Made and Unmade
Proletarianization Contested