| Description |
xviii, 571 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [522]-549) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1 Origins to 1917. Communism before Marxism ; Marx and Engels ; Communism in Europe ; Russian Variations ; The October Revolution ; The first Communist state -- Pt 2. Experiment: 1917-1929. European revolutions ; Communism and its discontents ; The Communist International ; Probing America ; Making sense of Communism ; The USSR in torment ; The Soviet model -- Pt. 3. Development: 1929-1947. World strategy ; Stalinist ideology ; Inside the parties ; Friends and foes ; Communism in the World War ; Forcing the peace -- Pt. 4. Reproduction: 1947-1957. The Cold War and the Soviet Bloc ; The Yugoslav road ; Western Europe ; Warring propaganda ; The Chinese Revolution ; Organising Communism ; Against and for reform -- Pt. 5. Mutation: 1957-1979. Détente and expansion ; China convulsed ; Revolutionary Cuba ; Communist order ; Rethinking Communism ; Europe East and West ; Reduced expectations ; Last of the Communist Revolutions -- Pt. 6. Endings: From 1980. Roads from Communism ; Anti-Communism in Eastern Europe ; China's capitalist Communism ; Perestroika ; The comrades depart ; Accounting for Communism. |
| Subject |
Communism -- History -- 19th century.
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Communism -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
History of world communism |
| ISBN |
9780674025301 alkaline paper |
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067402530X alkaline paper |
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