A Dictionary Of 20th Century Communism

Author : Silvio Pons,Robert Service
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400834525

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A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism by Silvio Pons,Robert Service Pdf

An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the world The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former communist states, scholars have found new material that has expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an ideological and political force. A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism brings this scholarship to students, teachers, and scholars in related fields. In more than 400 concise entries, the book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the enormous role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. Examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of communism around the globe Features contributions from an international team of 160 scholars Includes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as: Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, Gorbachev Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, Sandinista Revolution Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality, labor Organizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer Rouge Related topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism, anticommunism, McCarthyism Guides readers to further research through bibliographies, cross-references, and an index

Author : Massimo Salvadori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015050575854

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The Rise of Modern Communism by Massimo Salvadori Pdf

Author : Lawrence & Wishart, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912064022

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20th Century Communism 16 2019 by Lawrence & Wishart, Limited Pdf

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282209

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The Devil in History by Vladimir Tismaneanu Pdf

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements—people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.

Author : James D. Forman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015028068669

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Communism by James D. Forman Pdf

"Communism is no longer an iron-clad monolithic system dictated from behind the Kremlin walls. In this wide-ranging book, author James D. Forman considers the actual nature and status of communism in the world today. Measured against the social theory of Marx, as adapted by Lenin and institutionalized by Stalin, there is a variety of communistic experience responding to national conditions in places ranging from Russia itself to China, Africa, Chile, the Middle East. This objective and analytical book offers a fresh examination of the theoretical origin, historical development, and existing reality of a major force in contemporary political life"--

Author : Lawrence & Wishart, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912064014

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20th Century Communism 17 2019 by Lawrence & Wishart, Limited Pdf

Author : Massimo Salvadori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844628603

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Rise of Modern Communism by Massimo Salvadori Pdf

Author : Jürgen Rühle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833620106

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Literature and Revolution by Jürgen Rühle Pdf

Author : Juliane Fürst,Silvio Pons,Mark Selden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107135648

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The Cambridge History of Communism by Juliane Fürst,Silvio Pons,Mark Selden Pdf

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetration. Beneath the surface, profound political, social, economic and cultural changes were occurring in the socialist and former socialist countries, resulting in the collapse and transformations of the existing socialist order and the changing parameters of world Marxism. This volume draws on innovative research to bring together history from above and below, including social, cultural, gender, and transnational history to transcend the old separation between Communist studies and the broader field of contemporary history.

Author : Massimo L. Salvadori
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:552046073

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The Rise of Modern Communism by Massimo L. Salvadori Pdf

Author : Robert Harvey
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466888074

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A Short History of Communism by Robert Harvey Pdf

Today global communism seems just a terrible memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in the First World War. Was it only just over a decade ago that stone-faced old men were still presiding over "workers" paradises in the name of "the people" while hundreds of millions endured grinding poverty under a system of mind-controlling servitude which did not hesitate to murder and imprison whole populations in the cause of "progress"? Or that the world seemed under threat from revolutionary hordes engulfing one country after another, backed by a vast military machine and the threat of nuclear annihilation? In the 1970s, with the fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the march of Marxism-Leninism across the world seemed irresistible. Less than two decades later the experiment had collapsed, leaving perhaps 100 million dead, as well as economic devastation spanning continents. Even China now increasingly embraces free market economics. Only in a few backwaters does communism endure, as obsolete as rust-belt industry. This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than--as Marx had predicted--in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for its appeal -- not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness? A Short History of Communism sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis.

Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307372246

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The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Silvio Pons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191054105

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The Global Revolution by Silvio Pons Pdf

The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917-1991 establishes a relationship between the history of communism and the main processes of globalization in the past century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Silvio Pons analyses the multifaceted and contradictory relationship between the Soviet Union and the international communist movement, to show how communism played a major part in the formation of our modern world. The volume presents the argument that during the age of wars from 1914 to 1945, the establishment of the Soviet state in Russia and the birth of the communist movement had an enormous impact because of their promise of world revolution and international civil war. Such perspective appeared even more plausible in the aftermath of the Second World War and of revolution in China, which paved the way for the expansion of communism in the post-colonial world. Communism challenged the West in the Cold War - by means of anti-capitalist modernization and anti-imperialist mobilization - showing itself to be a powerful factor in the politicization of global trends. However, the international legitimacy of communism declined rapidly in the post-war era. Soviet power exposed its inability to exercise hegemony, as distinct from domination. The consequences of Sovietization in Europe and the break between the Soviet Union and China were the primary reasons for the decline of communist influence and appeal. Since communism lost its political credibility and cultural cohesion, its global project had failed. The ground was prepared for the devastating impact of Western globalization on communist regimes in Europe and the Soviet Union.

Author : Elliott Johnson,David Walker,Daniel Gray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442237988

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Historical Dictionary of Marxism by Elliott Johnson,David Walker,Daniel Gray Pdf

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Marxism covers of the basics of Karl Marx’s thought, the philosophical contributions of later Marxist theorists, and the extensive real-world political organizations and structures his work inspired—that is, the myriad political parties, organizations, countries, and leaders who subscribed to Marxism as a creed. This text includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, both thinkers and doers; political parties and movements; and major communist or ex-communist countries. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Marxism.

Author : Josie McLellan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521898911

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Love in the Time of Communism by Josie McLellan Pdf

This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution.