The Rise and Fall of CommunismHarper Collins, 2 Ιουν 2009 - 756 σελίδες “A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical.” “Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book.” The Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive history from the internationally renowned Oxford authority on the subject. Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Archie Brown examines the origins of the most important political ideology of the 20th century, its development in different nations, its collapse in the Soviet Union following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. Fans of John Lewis Gaddis, Samuel Huntington, and avid students of history will appreciate the sweep and insight of this epic and astonishing work. |
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The Russian Revolutions and Civil War | 40 |
Russia and the Soviet | 56 |
International Communism between | 78 |
What Do We Mean by a Communist | 101 |
The Appeals of Communism | 117 |
From the Hundred Flowers | 313 |
I8 Communism in Asia and Africa | 332 |
I9 The Prague Spring | 368 |
The Soviet | 398 |
Deng Xiaoping | 438 |
The Challenge of the West | 459 |
Gorbachev Perestroika and the Attempt | 481 |
The Dismantling of Soviet | 503 |
Communism and the Second World War | 135 |
The Communist Takeovers in Europe | 148 |
Soviet Impositions | 161 |
The Communists Take Power in China | 179 |
PostWar Stalinism and the Break with | 194 |
I3 Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party | 227 |
I4 Zigzags on the Road to communism | 244 |
I5 Revisionism and Revolution in Eastern | 267 |
A Caribbean Communist State | 293 |
The End of Communism in Europe | 522 |
The Breakup of the Soviet State | 549 |
Why Did Communism Last so Long? | 574 |
What Caused the Collapse | 587 |
Whats Left of Communism? | 603 |
Acknowledgements 619 | 618 |
Picture Credits | 689 |