The Moral Collapse Of Communism
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Author | : John Clark |
Publisher | : ICS Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Om kommunistisk politisk økonomi sammenlignet med vestlig kapitalisme hvor forfatterne bruger Polen som eksempel
Author | : Leslie Holmes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199551545 |
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.
Author | : Gale Stokes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1993-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199879192 |
Gale Stokes' The Walls Came Tumbling Down has been one of the standard interpretations of the East European revolutions of 1989 for many years. It offers a sweeping yet vivid narrative of the two decades of developments that led from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the collapse of communism in 1989. Highlights of that narrative include, among other things, discussions of Solidarity and civil society in Poland, Charter 77 and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the bizarre regime of Romania's Nikolae Ceausescu and his violent downfall. In this second edition, now appropriately subtitled Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe, Stokes not only has revised these portions of the book in the light of recent scholarship, but has added three new chapters covering the post-communist period, including analyses of the unification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union, narratives of the admission of many of the countries of the region to the European Union, and discussion of the unfortunate outcomes of the Wars of Yugoslav Succession in the Western Balkans.
Author | : Archie Brown |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2009-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061885487 |
“A work of considerable delicacy and nuance….Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history…that is both controversial and commonsensical.” —Salon.com “Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book.” —William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era The Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive history from the internationally renowned Oxford authority on the subject. Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Archie Brown examines the origins of the most important political ideology of the 20th century, its development in different nations, its collapse in the Soviet Union following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. Fans of John Lewis Gaddis, Samuel Huntington, and avid students of history will appreciate the sweep and insight of this epic and astonishing work.
Author | : Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674076082 |
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author | : Paul Hollander |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300144208 |
The unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 signaled the demise of a political and economic system that was widely perceived as durable, the preeminent rival to that of the United States. Less conspicuous than the momentous political transformations were the altered beliefs, aspirations, and illusions of the individuals who had maintained and led that system. In this original interpretation the eminent sociologist Paul Hollander focuses on the human aspects of the failure of Soviet communism. He examines how members of the Soviet political elite, leaders in communist Czechoslovakia and Hungary, high-ranking officials in agencies of control and coercion, and distinguished defectors and exiles experienced the erosion of ideals that undermined the political system they had once believed in.Hollander analyzes an array of autobiographical and biographical writings, journalistic accounts, and scholarly interpretations of the unraveling of Soviet communism. The Soviet Union fell apart not merely because of severe economic shortcomings, Hollander argues, but because of the double impact of the conflict between official ideals and practical realities and an eroding sense of legitimacy in the highest echelons. In his conclusion, the author considers how Marxist theory both shaped and undermined the system.
Author | : Lee Edwards |
Publisher | : Hoover Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0817998160 |
Experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth century—why did Communism collapse so suddenly? These essays suggest that a wide range of forces—political, economic, strategic, religious, add the indispensable role of the principled statesman and the brave dissident—brought about the collapse of communism.
Author | : Zlatko Anguelov |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781585441952 |
In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Mikhail Gorbachev |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2005-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857731947 |
Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman whose origins are the Marx-inspired world of communism while Ikeda is Buddhist inspired by the thirteenth century Japanese sage, Nichiren. Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century emerged from a series of conversations between these two men. Together they explore their experiences of life amidst the turmoil of the twentieth century and together they search for a common ethical basis for future development. They conclude that values are born of culture and that peace, progress and social justice can only be achieved through sincere communication and cultural exchange. As the new century begins, they have sought to turn the spotlight on the challenges which face humanity. The book is a call for dialogue in pursuit of values that bridge culture and time.
Author | : Vivian Gornick |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 178873551X |
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.