The rise and demise of world communism /
"Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. Only five of them remain in power today. This book explores the nature of communist regimes-what they share in common, how they differed from each other, and how they differentially evolved over time. It finds that t...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Maoism to market Leninism : the Chinese economic miracle after Mao
- China in a post-communist world : can Leninism survive market Leninism?
- Market Leninism in Vietnam
- Market Leninism in Laos
- Bureaucratic Leninism in Cuba
- Stalinism in North Korea
- Why the drive to difference?
- Assessing the communist experience : achievement or tragedy?
- Is there a future for new communist states?