Download or read book The Rise and Decline of International Communism written by Geoffrey Stern and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging many of the most deeply held assumptions about the communist world, this original, provocative and wide-ranging book brings new understanding of the international communist movement.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism written by Archie Brown and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last few decades. In this illuminating book, based on forty years of study and a wealth of new sources, Archie Brown provides a comprehensive history as well as an original and highly readable analysis of an ideology that has shaped the world and still rules over a fifth of humanity. A compelling new work from an internationally renowned specialist, The Rise and Fall of Communism promises to be the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communist Parties in France and Italy written by Marco Di Maggio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the dynamics through which the two major communist parties of the capitalist world—which in the 1970s had great influence on their respective national political contexts since the 1980s are increasing their marginality and, although in different forms and with different timeframes are unable to stem the decline of their political and cultural influences on the working classes.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx Posed As The Mesiah To The Down¬Trodden. He Declared That Communism Will, In The Words Of The German Poet Lessing, Blotch(Es) Up The Loopholes In The Structures Of The World. There Will Be One World, One Flag, One Humanity, And One Ideology. Being Carried Away By The Charisma Of Lenin And Stalin, The Down¬Trodden Conquered About One-Third Of The World To Be Governed From Moscow. The Hammer, Sickle And Star Embossed Red Flag Fluttered In The Sky. The Whole Bourgeois World Trembled. But Very Soon The Hammer Fell On The Head Of Trotsky And Soon The Teeth Of The Sickle Got Rusted And Lastly The Star Fell To The Ground Like A Burnt Up Meteor. Why Did The People Get Attracted To Communism? How Did Communism Temporarily Succeed In Con¬Quering A Part Of The World? What Did The People Get From Communism? Why One Communism Broke Up Into Many Com¬Munisms ? Why Did Communism Fall? And, Lastly, What Political Garb The World May Wear In The Near Future?These Are The Questions The Author Tries To Answer Here.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism written by Archie Brown and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. The 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. For this comprehensive and illuminating work, Brown draws on more than forty years of research and on a wealth of new sources. Tracing the story of Communism from its nineteenth-century roots, Brown explains both its expansion and its decline in the twentieth century. Even today, although Communism has been widely discredited in the West, more than a fifth of humanity still lives under its rule.
Download or read book The Rise And Fall Of Communism written by Richard H Hudelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing this book has been a rewarding but challenging experience. Along the way I• have had the helpful comments and criticisms of a number of friends and colleagues. Pat Maus, Susanna Frenkel, Kit Christensen, and Carl Ross read the entire manuscript. Steve Chilton, Milan Kovacovic, and .Marina Rumyantseva read parts of it. They and the reviewers for Westview Press have weeded out many errors and forced me to think through a number of difficult points. The errors and confusions that remain do so in spite of their best efforts. I thank them all. I would also like to thank Spencer Carr of Westview Press for his support of this project and for his editorial suggestions, which resulted in major improvements. Finally, thanks to Jean Vileta for her editorial assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication.
Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Joshua Muravchik and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Communism written by Philip Jacob Jaffe and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanguard of the Revolution written by A. James McAdams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive political history of the communist party Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings. Vanguard of the Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution written by Warren Hasty Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial study of international Communism presents the whole mighty drama of global socialism and Marxism: from its pre-Bolshevik origins through the establishment of a Communist empire over one third the world population to the shattering defeat of the Soviet state in 1991. A landmark work of history, exhaustively documented and narrated in a compelling style.
Download or read book Communism A Very Short Introduction written by Leslie Holmes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. This Very Short Introduction examines the history behind the political, economic, and social structures of communism as an ideology.
Download or read book The Rise and Demise of World Communism written by George W. Breslauer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China, had the world's largest population. At communism's high point, its adherents envisioned global triumph. Today, however, only five communist regimes remain in power. Why? In The Rise and Demise of World Communism, George Breslauer, a specialist who has spent decades observing the evolution of communist states, provides a sweeping history of the world communist movement, focusing in particular on what communist states shared in common and why they began to differ from each other over time. Throughout, Breslauer explores the relations among communist states as well as the relations between those states and the world of increasingly affluent, and militarily formidable, democratic-capitalist powers. He finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that valued "revolutionary violence" as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx's vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin's conception of party organization. As Breslauer shows, all these regimes went on to "build socialism" according to a Stalinist template and were initially dedicated to "anti-imperialist struggle" as members of a world communist movement. But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement and eventually led to the collapse of European communism. Even though a few communist regimes still remain in power, the dream of world communism is dead. But the future of the remaining communist regimes is uncertain. An accessible history of one of the most important political phenomena of the past 150 years, The Rise and Demise of World Communism provides readers with a crisp account of the entire movement--from the theories of Marx and Lenin to the on-the-ground policies of Stalin, Mao, Gorbachev, Deng, and other communist leaders-that culminates in our own era.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism written by Richard Hudelson and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the evolution of the communist movement from its beginning in 18th-century Britain, this book encapsulates the history, philosophy, politics and economics of communism. The text provides an introduction to this history for students and others who may know little of communism.
Download or read book AVPS World History Series The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism written by and published by Social Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Cold War written by Paul Seabury and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines new forms of political organization within the international community in the years following the end of World War II.
Download or read book Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe written by Ben Fowkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist parties came to power in a variety of ways, usually by force, often with the acquiescence of people who hoped for a better future. Then came the imposition of Stalinism. The book examines this, and subsequent crises in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of Nations written by Mancur Olson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.
