The Socialist Countries
Author: Erwin Marquit
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 228
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Author: Erwin Marquit
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bogdan Szajkowski
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1981-07-30
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1349165662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bogdan Szajkowski
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1981-06-18
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 134904332X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter W. Sperlich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-11-30
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0313013578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSperlich examines the ideological foundations of the socialist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. He provides a detailed analysis of the nature of the GDR's legitimating ideology and of the reasons why the ideology ultimately failed to legitimate the regime. The study uses primary source documents extensively as well as the little existing secondary literature. This is part of Sperlich's larger project dealing with the government, society, economy, political participation, and administration of the law and the system of courts of the GDR. This definitive treatment of the GDR provides the background essential to an understanding of all communist systems of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for scholars, students, and other researchers seeking to understand the rise and ultimate collapse of communist systems and, in particular, the decline of the German Democratic Republic.
Author: Bogdan Szajkowski
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1981-06-18
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 134904329X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bogdan Szajkowski
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1981-07-01
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ISBN-13: 9780312518592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Eberstadt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1351476688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne third of the world's population today lives under governments that consider themselves to be Marxist-Leninist. In many of these places, severe poverty was endemic in the years before Communist authorities came to power. Communist governments claim to have a special understanding into and effectiveness in dealing with problems of poverty. Marxist-Leninist rulers have been in power for nearly thirty years in Cuba, nearly forty years in China, and over sixty-five years in the Soviet Union. How do the poor fare in such places today?Western intellectuals often assume there is an inevitable tradeoff between bread and freedom under communism. What populations lose in the way of civil and political rights, they gain in social guarantees that protect them against material hardship. In The Poverty of Communism, Nick Eberstadt challenges this assumption and shatters it. He shows that Communist governments in a wide variety of settings have been no more successful in attending to the material needs of the most vulnerable segments of the populations they govern than non-Communist governments against which they might most readily be compared. Indeed, measured by the health, literacy, and nutrition of their people, Communist governments may today be less effective in dealing with poverty than are non-Communist governments.The Poverty of Communism is a pathbreaking investigation. In a series of separate studies, Eberstadt analyzes the performance of Communist governments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and Cuba. This is the first scholarly effort to assess the record of Communist governments with respect to poverty in a detailed and comprehensive fashion. Well written, carefully argued, and reflecting a sweeping range of knowledge, The Poverty of Communism will be of interest to specialists in the countries investigated as well as those concerned with comparative economic and political development. Above all, it gives test
Author: Thomas Fleming
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780761426325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Discusses socialism as a political system, and details the history of socialist governments throughout the world"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Thomas Johnson Nossiter
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stéphane Courtois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780674076082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.