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100 1 _aBrown, Archie
_q(Archibald Haworth),
_d1938-
245 1 4 _aThe rise and fall of communism /
_cArchie Brown.
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bEcco,
_cc2011.
300 _axv, 720 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [623]-688) and index.
505 0 _aPt. 1. Origins and development. The idea of communism ; Communism and socialism : the early years ; The Russian revolutions and civil war ; 'Building socialism' : Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40 ; International communism between the two world wars ; What do we mean by a communist system? -- Pt. 2. Communism ascendant. The appeals of communism ; Communism and the Second World War ; The communist takeovers in Europe : indigenous paths ; The communist takeovers in Europe : Soviet impositions ; The communists take power in China ; Post-war Stalinism and the break with Yugoslavia -- Pt. 3. Surviving without Stalin. Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress ; Zig-zags on the road to 'communism' ; Revisionism and revolution in Eastern Europe ; Cuba : a Caribbean communist state ; China : from the 'Hundred Flowers' to 'Cultural Revolution' ; Communism in Asia and Africa ; The 'Prague Spring' ; 'The era of stagnation' : the Soviet Union under Brezhnev -- Pt. 4. Pluralizing pressures. The challenge from Poland : John Paul II, Lech Wa±esa, and the rise of solidarity ; Reform in China : Deng Xiaoping and after ; The challenge of the West -- Pt. 5. Interpreting the fall of communism. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the attempt to reform communism, 1985-87 ; The dismantling of Soviet communism, 1988-89 ; The end of communism in Europe ; The break-up of the Soviet state ; Why did communism last so long? ; What caused the collapse of communism? ; What's left of communism?
520 _aTraces the origins of the communist ideology through its collapse in many nations following Perestroika, in an extensively researched volume that also explores communism's current incarnations.
520 _aThe Rise and Fall of Communism explores how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents, to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems.--From publisher description.
650 0 _aComunismo
_xHistoria
_93596
650 0 _aCommunism
_xHistory.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2009279195-b.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2009279195-d.html
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