Hikmet Kıvılcımlı Kitabı-Seçme Metinler ve Üzerine Yazılar

Hikmet Kivilcimli; A witness of history who lived through the years of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkan Wars, the destruction caused by the First World War, the War of Independence and the early Republic periods.

A revolutionary who met with international socialist thought in the years when hope rose for the oppressed in the world after the October Revolution and spent his entire life in political struggles.

A life full of polemics, with his studies on the theoretical and historical development of Marxist thought, which broadened the horizons of struggle.

A revolutionary with original theses and theories, based on Turkey's specific conditions and looking at the Turkish revolution through this.

He was the most productive revolutionary of the Turkish socialist movement, having been subjected to imprisonment and torture many times throughout his life, with the huge body of work he produced tirelessly during the trying years and left behind, and with the works he translated from Marxist classics.

He is a unique revolutionary who brings original concepts to socialist literature, has a different language, humor and irony.

A revolutionary who contributed to the ideological map of the left and universal Marxist literature from Turkey with his East/West oriented inquiries and localization discussions...

The book you have in your hand consists of the own writings of Hikmet Kivilcimli, one of the early members of the socialist movement in Turkey, and articles evaluating him from various aspects.

We hope that this selection, which is a complete introduction to Hikmet Kivilcimli's literature, will contribute to his understanding and introduction to new generations.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 558

Size: 15x21

First Print Year: 2017

Media Type: Paperback