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mods: The rise and demise of world communism Breslauer, George W. creator author. UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online) text bibliography Electronic books. nyu 2021 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. What did communist regimes have in common? -- How did communist regimes differ from each other? -- The world communist movement : from Moscow-centric to pluralistic -- Marxism : the vision -- Leninism : the instrument -- The Bolshevik seizure of power -- Consolidating Bolshevik power -- Respite -- Building socialism : Stalin's revolution from above -- The Great Terror and Stalinist despotism -- Was Stalinism a logical continuation of Marxism, Leninism, or neither? -- Was Stalin's revolution from above a rational strategy of modernization? -- Stalinism and world communism in the 1930s -- The impact of World War II on the Soviet Union and world communism -- The creation of East European communist states -- Origins and entrenchment of the Cold War, 1945-1953 -- World War II and the creation of Asian communist states : the People's Republic of China -- Consolidating power and building socialism in China -- Communist parties come to power in Korea and Vietnam -- What follows Stalinism in the USSR? -- Diversity and defiance within the world communist movement -- "Building communism" : competition for ideological "correctness" within the world communist movement -- The Sino-Soviet schism, 1957-1963 -- Cuba's indigenous revolution, 1959-70 -- The Soviet Union after Khrushchev : bureaucratic Leninism -- Alternatives to utopia in China, 1960-1965 -- The great proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 -- Maoism : an accounting -- The collapse of the world communist movement and the rise of detente -- Why US-Soviet détente failed -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, December 1979 -- Varieties of opposition to the Soviet model in Eastern Europe, 1968-1985 -- Gorbachev's peaceful revolution from above -- Gorbachev and the abandonment of anti-imperialist struggle -- From Maoi…