The Rise and Fall of Communism

by Brown, Archie

• ISBN13: 9780061138799
• ISBN10: 0061138797
• Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

From an internationally acclaimed authority on Communism comes this comprehensive look at the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries, and its current incarnations around the globe. bw photo inserts.

Table of Contents

A Note on Names	p. xi
Glossary and Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Origins and Development
The Idea of Communism	p. 9
Communism and Socialism - the Early Years	p. 26
The Russian Revolutions and Civil War	p. 40
'Building Socialism': Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40	p. 56
International Communism between the Two World Wars	p. 78
What Do We Mean by a Communist System?	p. 101
Communism Ascendant
The Appeals of Communism	p. 117
Communism and the Second World War	p. 135
The Communist Takeovers in Europe - Indigenous Paths	p. 148
The Communist Takeovers in Europe - Soviet Impositions	p. 161
The Communists Take Power in China	p. 179
Post-War Stalinism and the Break with Yugoslavia	p. 194
Surviving without Stalin
Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress	p. 227
Zig-zags on the Road to 'communism'	p. 244
Revisionism and Revolution in Eastern Europe	p. 267
Cuba: A Caribbean Communist State	p. 293
China: From the 'Hundred Flowers' to 'Cultural Revolution'	p. 313
Communism in Asia and Africa	p. 332
The 'Prague Spring'	p. 368
'The Era of Stagnation': The Soviet Union under Brezhnev	p. 398
Pluralizing Pressures
The Challenge from Poland: John Paul II, Lech Wa&lslash;esa, and the Rise of Solidarity	p. 421
Reform in China: Deng Xiaoping and After	p. 438
The Challenge of the West	p. 459
Interpreting the Fall of Communism
Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Attempt to Reform Communism, 1985-87	p. 481
The Dismantling of Soviet Communism, 1988-89	p. 503
The End of Communism in Europe	p. 522
The Break-up of the Soviet State	p. 549
Why Did Communism Last so Long?	p. 574
What Caused the Collapse of Communism?	p. 587
What's Left of Communism?	p. 603
Acknowledgements	p. 619
Notes and Sources	p. 623
Picture Credits	p. 689
Index	p. 691
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