03305cam a2200373 a 4500006838646MiAaHDL20250726000000.0m d cr bn ---auaua090501r20092009nyuabf b 001 0 eng d00611387979780061138799(MiU)990068386460106381sdr-miu.990068386460106381(MiU)MIU01000000000000006838646-goog(coutts)cts10800307(OCoLC)262886321(MiU)Aleph006838646BTCTABTCTAYDXCPABGWIMBURSGBWAUUtOrBLWHX36.B74 2009320.53/222Brown, Archie,1938-http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109779http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79109779The rise and fall of communism /Archie Brown.1st U.S. ed.New York, N.Y. :Ecco,c2009.xv, 720 p., [16] p. of plates :ill., maps ;24 cmtexttxtrdacontentunmediatednrdamediavolumencrdacarrierOriginally published: London : Bodley Head, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-688) and index.Pt. 1: Origins and development. The idea of communism ; Communism and socialism, the early years ; The Russian revolutions and civil war ; "Building socialism" : Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40 ; International communism between the two world wars ; What do we mean by a communist system? -- Pt. 2: Communism ascendant. The appeals of communism ; Communism and the Second World War ; The communist takeovers in Europe--indigenous paths ; The communist takeovers in Europe--Soviet impositions ; The communists take power in China ; Post-war Stalinism and the break with Yugoslavia -- Pt. 3: Surviving without Stalin. Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress ; Zig-zags on the road to "communism" ; Revisionism and revolution in Eastern Europe ; Cuba, a Caribbean communist state ; China, from the "Hundred Flowers" to "Cultural Revolution" ; Communism in Asia and Africa ; The "Prague Spring" ; "The era of stagnation" : the Soviet Union under Brezhnev -- Pt. 4: Pluralizing pressures. The challenge from Poland : John Paul II, Lech Wałesa, and the rise of Solidarity ; Reform in China : Deng Xiaoping and after ; The challenge of the West -- Pt. 5: Interpreting the fall of communism. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the attempt to reform communism, 1985-87 ; The dismantling of Soviet communism, 1988-89 ; The end of communism in Europe ; The break-up of the Soviet state ; Why did communism last so long? ; What caused the collapse of communism? ; What's left of communism?The 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 descriptionTraces 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.Mode of access: Internet.CommunismHistory.http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh850291223901508089749200683864620241218045805.020250726000000.020260303140653.02026-04-11T17:43:35Z2026-04-11T17:30:02ZSDR-MIUmiuALMAprepare.pl-004-009BKsdr-miu.990068386460106381MiUSDRMIU006838646mdp.39015080897492MIU990068386460106381MIUMIU20260411googlemdp.390150808974922009icbibUS bib date1, date type r >= 1931