Comrades!: A History of World CommunismTraces 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 |
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 |
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