Comrades!: A History of World Communism

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Harvard University Press, 2007 - History - 571 pages
Traces the history of communism from its earliest origins to the present day, profiling the key individuals and events that shaped communism, describing the contributions of Marx and Engels, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the rise of the Soviet bloc, the spread of communism, its ideology and organization, and its collapse in Eastern Europe an

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Contents

Introduction
1
ORIGINS TO 1917
11
COMMUNISM BEFORE MARXISM
13
MARX AND ENGELS
24
COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
36
RUSSIAN VARIATIONS
46
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
58
THE FIRST COMMUNIST STATE
70
WESTERN EUROPE
261
WARRING PROPAGANDA
272
THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
283
ORGANISING COMMUNISM
293
AGAINST AND FOR REFORM
304
MUTATION 19571979
317
DETENTE AND EXPANSION
319
CHINA CONVULSED
331

EXPERIMENT 19171929
83
EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS
85
COMMUNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
97
THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
107
PROBING AMERICA
119
MAKING SENSE OF COMMUNISM
130
THE USSR IN TORMENT
142
THE SOVIET MODEL
153
DEVELOPMENT 19291947
165
WORLD STRATEGY
167
STALINIST IDEOLOGY
179
INSIDE THE PARTIES
190
FRIENDS AND FOES
202
COMMUNISM IN THE WORLD WAR
213
FORCING THE PEACE
224
REPRODUCTION 19471957
237
THE COLD WAR AND THE SOVIET BLOC
239
THE YUGOSLAV ROAD
251
REVOLUTIONARY CUBA
342
COMMUNIST ORDER
354
RETHINKING COMMUNISM
366
EUROPE EAST AND WEST
379
REDUCED EXPECTATIONS
391
LAST OF THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS
401
ENDINGS FROM 1980
413
ROADS FROM COMMUNISM
415
ANTICOMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE
426
CHINAS CAPITALIST COMMUNISM
437
PERESTROIKA
448
THE COMRADES DEPART
459
ACCOUNTING FOR COMMUNISM
473
Notes
483
Select Bibliography
522
Index
551
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Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography.

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