|
" The rise and fall of communism / "
Archie Brown.
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
1001083
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b755453
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Brown, Archie,1938-
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
The rise and fall of communism /\ Archie Brown.
|
| Edition Statement
|
:
|
1st U.S. ed.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New York :: Ecco,, ©2009.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xv, 720 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0061138797
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780061138799
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-688) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
pt. 1. Origins and development. The idea of communism ; Communism and socialism : the early years ; The Russian revolutions and civil war ; 'Building socialism' : Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40 ; International communism between the two world wars ; What do we mean by a communist system? -- pt. 2. Communism ascendant. The appeals of communism ; Communism and the Second World War ; The communist takeovers in Europe : indigenous paths ; The communist takeovers in Europe : Soviet impositions ; The communists take power in China ; Post-war Stalinism and the break with Yugoslavia -- pt. 3. Surviving without Stalin. Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress ; Zig-zags on the road to 'communism' ; Revisionism and revolution in Eastern Europe ; Cuba : a Caribbean communist state ; China : from the 'Hundred Flowers' to 'Cultural Revolution' ; Communism in Asia and Africa ; The 'Prague Spring' ; 'The era of stagnation' : the Soviet Union under Brezhnev -- pt. 4. Pluralizing pressures. The challenge from Poland : John Paul II, Lech Wałesa, and the rise of solidarity ; Reform in China : Deng Xiaoping and after ; The challenge of the West -- pt. 5. Interpreting the fall of communism. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the attempt to reform communism, 1985-87 ; The dismantling of Soviet communism, 1988-89 ; The end of communism in Europe ; The break-up of the Soviet state ; Why did communism last so long? ; What caused the collapse of communism? ; What's left of communism?
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
The Rise and Fall of Communism explores how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents, to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems.--From publisher description.
|
|
|
:
|
Traces the origins of the communist ideology through its collapse in many nations following Perestroika, in an extensively researched volume that also explores communism's current incarnations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Communism-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Communism-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Communism.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
320.53/2
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
HX36.B74 2009
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
335.43 B877r
|
|
|
:
|
320.532.22
|
|
|
:
|
D1clc
|
| |