| Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Grand failure: Leninist legacy -- Stalinist catastrophe -- Stagnant Stalinism -- Paradox of reform -- Soviet disunion: From vision to revisionism -- Ten dynamics of disunion -- Evolving or decaying communism? -- Organic rejection: Ideological transportation and transmutation -- Polish society's self-emancipation -- From social solidarity to political pluralism -- Emerging regional unrest -- Imperial retrenchment -- Commercial communism: China's double three tries -- Political conflict and the birth of reform -- Reform strategy and ideological flexibility -- Real cultural revolution -- Discredited praxis: Political irrelevance in the developed world -- Socioeconomic failure in the developing countries -- Global ideological disintegration -- Agony of communism: General crisis -- Historical record -- Future prospects -- Post-communism. |
| Subject |
Communism -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism.
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| ISBN |
0684190346 |
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