| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 422 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Explosion -- 1. The deity -- Marx and Marxism -- The six commandments -- Pre-revolutionary Russia : towards the First World War -- Russia : westernizers and Slavophiles -- 2. The prophet -- Lenin -- From war to revolution -- The revolution : international repercussions -- 3. The butcher -- The rise of Stalin -- The real Russian revolution -- The Second World War and after -- Stalin's legacy : Russia and Eastern Europe -- Yugoslavia -- Berlin -- 4. The dreamer -- The young Mao -- Peasant power -- The long march -- Perpetual renewal -- The fall and rise of Mao -- 5. Global conflagration -- Ho Chi Minh -- Year zero : Cambodia -- Africa -- Portugal : the end of empire -- Fidel Castro and Latin America -- pt. II. The communist universe -- 6. Middle age -- Khrushchev and reform -- Levers of power : Brezhnev and his successors -- In the Soviet state -- 7. Perpetual revolution -- The Sino-Soviet divide -- The cultural revolution -- Deng Xiaoping -- In the Chinese state -- The death of Chinese communism -- 8. Enforced revolution -- The great oppressions : Hungary and Czechoslovakia -- 'It all started in Gdansk...' : Poland -- 9. Schisms -- The Eurocommunist heresy -- Southeast Asia : the victors fall out -- Arab socialism -- Afghanistan -- Latin America : exporting revolution -- pt. III. The collapse -- 10. The redeemer -- The last of the Behemoths : Andropov and Chernenko -- The Soviet crisis -- Gorbachev takes the reins -- 11. Whirlwind -- The unravelling -- Easter Europe : all fall down -- The return of Yeltsin -- 12. The kill -- The Soviet Union unravels : the fall of Gorbachev -- Conclusion. |
| Subject |
Communism -- History.
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| ISBN |
0312329091 |
|
9780312329099 |
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