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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Service, Robert, 1947- Comrades! Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)654479122 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Service |
ISBN: | 9780674025301 067402530X 9780674046993 0674046994 |
OCLC Number: | 77333983 |
Description: | xviii, 571 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1 Origins to 1917. Communism before Marxism ; Marx and Engels ; Communism in Europe ; Russian Variations ; The October Revolution ; The first Communist state -- Pt 2. Experiment: 1917-1929. European revolutions ; Communism and its discontents ; The Communist International ; Probing America ; Making sense of Communism ; The USSR in torment ; The Soviet model -- pt. 3. Development: 1929-1947. World strategy ; Stalinist ideology ; Inside the parties ; Friends and foes ; Communism in the World War ; Forcing the peace -- pt. 4. Reproduction: 1947-1957. The Cold War and the Soviet Bloc ; The Yugoslav road ; Western Europe ; Warring propaganda ; The Chinese Revolution ; Organising Communism ; Against and for reform -- pt. 5. Mutation: 1957-1979. Détente and expansion ; China convulsed ; Revolutionary Cuba ; Communist order ; Rethinking Communism ; Europe East and West ; Reduced expectations ; Last of the Communist Revolutions -- pt. 6. Endings: From 1980. Roads from Communism ; Anti-Communism in Eastern Europe ; China's capitalist Communism ; Perestroika ; The comrades depart ; Accounting for Communism. |
Other Titles: | History of world communism |
Responsibility: | Robert Service. |
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Abstract:
Service offers a history of communism, drawing the uncomfortable conclusion that the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compelling, this is a comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
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[A] welcome comprehensive volume arrating the history of world communism.--G. A. McBeath"Choice" (11/01/2007)
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