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Author: Leslie Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0199551545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Michael McFaul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-09-06
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521834841
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Author: Lee Edwards
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0817998160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExperts 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: Doug Lorimer
Publisher: Resistance Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780909196738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Blackburn
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished left theorists, analysts, and social critics (including Eric Hobsbawm, Jurgen Habermas, Eduardo Galeano, Ralph Miliband, Giovanni Arrighi, Fredric Jameson, Fred Halliday, Edward Thompson, and Alexander Cockburn) explain the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory and explore the grounds for continued socialist endeavor and commitment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 743
ISBN-13: 0307372243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished 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: Martin K. Dimitrov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-31
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1107035538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.
Author: Tibor Valuch
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9633863775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.
Author: Альберт Кашфуллович Байбурин
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 041569504X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality of contemporary Soviet life. Since the end of the Soviet Union anthropology in Russia has been transformed. International research standards have been adopted, and the focus of research has shifted to include urban culture and difficult subjects, such as xenophobia. However, this transformation has been, and continues to be, controversial, with, for example, strongly contested debates about the relevance of Western anthropology and cultural theory to post-Soviet reality. This book presents an overview of how anthropology in Russia has changed since Soviet times, and showcases examples of important Russian anthropological work. As such, the book will be of great interest not just to Russian specialists, but also to anthropologists more widely, and to all those interested in the way academic study is related to prevailing political and social conditions.
Author: Michael McFaul
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
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