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100 1 $aBrown, Archie,$d1938-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109779
245 14 $aThe rise and fall of communism /$cArchie Brown.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEcco,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axv, 720 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [623]-688) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Idea of Communism -- $g2.$tCommunism and Socialism - the Early Years -- $g3.$tThe Russian Revolutions and Civil War -- $g4.$t'Building Socialism': Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40 -- $g5.$tInternational Communism between the Two World Wars -- $g6.$tWhat Do We Mean by a Communist System? -- $g7.$tThe Appeals of Communism -- $g8.$tCommunism and the Second World War -- $g9.$tThe Communist Takeovers in Europe - Indigenous Paths -- $g10.$tThe Communist Takeovers in Europe - Soviet Impositions -- $g11.$tThe Communists Take Power in China -- $g12.$tPost-War Stalinism and the Break with Yugoslavia -- $g13.$tKhrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress -- $g14.$tZig-zags on the Road to 'communism' -- $g15.$tRevisionism and Revolution in Eastern Europe -- $g16.$tCuba: A Caribbean Communist State -- $g17.$tChina: From the 'Hundred Flowers' to 'Cultural Revolution' -- $g18.$tCommunism in Asia and Africa -- $g19.$tThe 'Prague Spring' -- $g20.$t'The Era of Stagnation': The Soviet Union under Brezhnev -- $g21.$tThe Challenge from Poland: John Paul II, Lech Walesa, and the Rise of Solidarity -- $g22.$tReform in China: Deng Xiaoping and After -- $g23.$tThe Challenge of the West -- $g24.$tGorbachev, Perestroika, and the Attempt to Reform Communism, 1985-87 -- $g25.$tThe Dismantling of Soviet Communism, 1988-89 -- $g26.$tThe End of Communism in Europe -- $g27.$tThe Break-up of the Soviet State -- $g28.$tWhy Did Communism Last so Long? -- $g29.$tWhat Caused the Collapse of Communism? -- $g30.$tWhat's Left of Communism?
520 $aTraces the origins of the communist ideology through its collapse in many nations following Perestroika, in an extensively researched volume that also explores communism's current incarnations.
520 $aThe 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.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aCommunism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029122
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