The Rise and Fall of CommunismDoubleday Canada, 13 Οκτ 2009 - 736 σελίδες Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last few decades. In this illuminating book, based on forty years of study and a wealth of new sources, Archie Brown provides a comprehensive history as well as an original and highly readable analysis of an ideology that has shaped the world and still rules over a fifth of humanity. A compelling new work from an internationally renowned specialist, The Rise and Fall of Communism promises to be the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times. |
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The Idea of Communism | 8 |
Communism and Socialism | 26 |
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 |
Communism and the Second World War | 135 |
Communism in Asia and Africa | 332 |
The Prague Spring | 368 |
The Soviet | 398 |
John Paul | 420 |
Deng Xiaoping | 438 |
The Challenge of the West | 459 |
Gorbachev Perestroika and the Attempt | 481 |
The Dismantling of Soviet | 503 |
The Communist Takeovers in Europe | 148 |
The Communist Takeovers in Europe | 161 |
n The Communists Take Power in China | 179 |
PostWar Stalinism and the Break with | 194 |
Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party | 225 |
Zigzags on the Road to communism | 244 |
Revisionism and Revolution in Eastern | 267 |
A Caribbean Communist State | 293 |
From the Hundred Flowers | 313 |
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 | 618 |
Picture Credits | 689 |
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