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A Short History of Communism
Author | : Robert Harvey |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2014-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781466888074 |
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Today global communism seems just a terrible memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in the First World War. Was it only just over a decade ago that stone-faced old men were still presiding over "workers" paradises in the name of "the people" while hundreds of millions endured grinding poverty under a system of mind-controlling servitude which did not hesitate to murder and imprison whole populations in the cause of "progress"? Or that the world seemed under threat from revolutionary hordes engulfing one country after another, backed by a vast military machine and the threat of nuclear annihilation? In the 1970s, with the fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the march of Marxism-Leninism across the world seemed irresistible. Less than two decades later the experiment had collapsed, leaving perhaps 100 million dead, as well as economic devastation spanning continents. Even China now increasingly embraces free market economics. Only in a few backwaters does communism endure, as obsolete as rust-belt industry. This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than--as Marx had predicted--in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for its appeal -- not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness? A Short History of Communism sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis.
A Short History Of Soviet Socialism
Author | : Mark Sandle |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2003-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135366407 |
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Mark Sandle is Lecturer in Russian and East European History at De Montfort University.; This book is intended for undergraduate courses on 20th century Soviet history/the Cold War/European history/Soviet studies/History of political thought/Marxism-Leninism. The Left.
Communism
Author | : Richard Pipes |
Publsiher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2003-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812968644 |
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With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. This is the story of how the agitation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers and writers, led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.
A Short History of Chinese Communism Completely Updated
Author | : Fu-wu Hou,Franklin W. Houn |
Publsiher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002304262 |
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Examines the economic, cultural, and social policies of the Peking regime since 1949.
The Korean Workers Party
Author | : Chong-Sik Lee |
Publsiher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Korea (North) |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The Rise of Modern Communism
Author | : Massimo Salvadori |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : PSU:000027047088 |
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A Short History of Communism
Author | : Robert Harvey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0312329105 |
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A Short History of Socialism
Author | : George Lichtheim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015003564864 |
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