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Transitions and non-transitions from communism : regime survival in China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam /
"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, many scholars have sought to explain the collapse of communism. Yet, more than two decades on, communist regimes continue to rule in a diverse set of countries including China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam. In a unique study of fourteen countries, Steven Sax...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Figures and tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; Defining communist rule; Choice of countries; Regime types, legitimacy, and revolutionary potential; Regime types; The development of regime types; The revolutionary potential of society; Types of transitions: revolutions, pacts and semi-revolutions; Summary of the model; Alternative explanations; Make-up of this book; 2 Communist regime types; Totalitarianism regimes and hegemony; Failed totalitarianism; Ethiopia; Grenada; Nicaragua; Early post-totalitarianism and ideological legitimacy; Freezing post-totalitarianism.
- CzechoslovakiaEast Germany; The Soviet Union from Brezhnev to Chernenko; Maturing post-totalitarianism; Hungary; Poland; The Soviet Union under Gorbachev; China; Vietnam; Summary; 3 Nationalism and patrimonial communism; Non-patrimonial nationalists; The Soviet Union; China; Vietnam; Totalitarian patrimonialism in North Korea; Harsh freezing patrimonialism in Romania; Freezing patrimonialism in Cuba; Maturing patrimonialism in (rump) Yugoslavia; Summary: explaining patrimonial communism; 4 Ideology and opposition to communism; Institutional incentives and political actors; Intellectuals.
- What are the reasons for the dominance of intellectuals?Workers participate during economic crises; Professionals; Peasants; Ideology and the development of opposition; Oppositional roles and strategies; Cooperation between workers/peasants and intellectuals; The emergence of semi-oppositions; Summing up the relationship between legitimacy and strategy; 5 Revolutionary potential and revolutionary outcomes; Czechoslovakia; East Germany; Romania; The Soviet Union; Yugoslavia; Conclusion; 6 Transitions without revolutions; Transition through negotiated transitions; Poland; Hungary.
- Militant insurgenciesEthiopia; Grenada; Nicaragua; Conclusion; 7 Non-transitions among maturing countries; Economic success; Legitimacy lost, pragmatic acceptance gained; Is a revolutionary situation likely to emerge?; Conclusion; 8 Non-transition and patrimonial communism; Economic stagnation?; Potential for a military coup; The revolutionary potential of North Korea; The revolutionary potential of Cuba; Conclusion; 9 What next?; Prospects; What is to be done?; To boycott or not to boycott?; Great expectations?; Index.