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The grand failure : the birth and death of communism in the twentieth century / Zbigniew Brzezinski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scribner, c1989.Description: x, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0684190346
  • 9780684190341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.43/09/04 20
LOC classification:
  • HX40 B76 1989
Other classification:
  • 15.50
  • 89.15
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HX40 B76 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 1 Available 00000060556

Includes index.

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.

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