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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
S A Smith |
ISBN: | 9780199602056 0199602050 |
OCLC Number: | 844731388 |
Description: | xiii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Towards a global history of communism / Stephen A. Smith -- Part 1. Ideology. -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on communism / Paresh Chattopadhyay -- Lenin and Bolshevism / Lars T. Lih -- Stalin and Stalinism / Kevin McDermott -- Mao and Maoism / Timothy Cheek -- Part 2. Global moments. -- 1919 / Jean-François Fayet -- 1936 / Tim Rees -- 1956 / Sergey Radchenko -- 1968 / Maud Anne Bracke -- 1989 / Matthias Middell -- Part 3. Global communism. -- The Comintern / Alexander Vatlin and Stephen A. Smith -- Communism in Eastern Europe / Pavel Kolář -- Communism in China, 1900-2010 / Yang Kuisong and Stephen A. Smith -- Communism in South East Asia / Anna Belogurova -- Communism in Latin America / Mike Gonzalez -- Communism in the Islamic world / Anne Alexander -- Communism in Africa / Allison Drew -- Part 4. Communist polities and economies. -- Political and economic relations between communist states / Balázs Szalontai -- Averting Armageddon : the communist peace movement, 1948-1956 / Geoffrey Roberts -- The cult of personality and symbolic politics / Daniel Leese -- Communist revolution and political terror / Julia C. Strauss -- Popular opinion under communist regimes / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Communism and economic modernization / Mark Harrison -- Collectivization and famine / Felix Wemheuer -- The politics of plenty : consumerism in communist societies / Paul Betts -- Part 5. Communism and social relations. -- The life of a communist militant / Marco Albeltaro -- Rural life / Jeremy Brown -- Workers under communism : romance and reality / Tuong Vu -- Communism and women / Donna Harsch -- Privilege and inequality in communist society / Donald Filtzer -- Nation-making and national conflict under communism / Adrienne Lynn Edgar -- Part 6. Communism and culture. -- Cultural revolution / Richard King -- Communism and the artistic intelligentsia / Mark Gamsa -- Popular culture / Dean Vuletic -- Religion under communism / Richard Madsen -- Sport under communism / Robert Edelman, Anke Hilbrenner and Susan Brownell. |
Series Title: | Oxford handbooks. |
Other Titles: | History of communism |
Responsibility: | edited by Stephen A. Smith. |
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this collection offers the reader the opportunity to see the global nuances of Communism, the marked similarities of experience of those living in states adhering to fundamental Marxist-Leninist doctrine and the far less easy to understand spaces between. * Jennifer Cowe, Reviews in History * The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism embraces this new imperative to understand world communism as a polycentric (indeed, often terminally fractious) phenomenon. Its editor SA Smith is himself impressively cosmopolitan, an expert on both Soviet and Chinese communism, and almost all of the book's 36 essays - written by an international cast of scholars - are comparative in some way... The collection is enlightening not only about the German andBolshevik origins of communist politics, but its leaders; about every day and elite life in communist states; about the experiences of intellectuals, artists, workers and farmers; and about its global rise and fall. Smith and his fellow authors maintain a calm, dispassionate tone on the tragic complexities ofthe communist experiment. * Julia Lovell, The Guardian * ... the hugely impressive Oxford Handbook of The History of Communism, which is as comprehensive as it is challenging ... Rich in scope while sharply analytical in its understanding of one of the twentieth centurys grand narratives. * Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football * a valuable place to begin a study of communism and also an expert guide for those seeking to deepen their knowledge of this global phenomenon of the twentieth century. * John Callaghan, English Historical Review * Read more...


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