One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments /

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"Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin's coup brought the first communist regime to pow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Luber, Jordan (Editor ), Tismaneanu, Vladimir (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Central European University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Communism.
Communism > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Why a 20th century exercise in the 21st century / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber.
  • Part one: Fantasies of salvation. German communism, the Jews and Israel : from the antifascism of World War II to the undeclared wars of the Cold War / Jeffrey Herf
  • Euphoria to decay : post-Marxist revision's mortal threat to communism / Vladimir Tismaneanu
  • Getting off the red tram of socialism / Mykola Riabchuk
  • The rise, demise, and pernicious long-term impact of Soviet communist ideology in Russia / Mark Kramer.
  • Part two: Economics. The comparative assessment of communist and post-communist system performance and human wellbeing : challenges and insights from in-depth case study approaches / Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko
  • Communist economy : the verdict of history / Steven Rosefielde
  • Looking back at the Soviet economic experience / Peter Rutland
  • Incentives, coercion, and redistribution : why industrial central plan economies performed worse than Western market economies and better than less developed economies / Michael S. Bernstam
  • The rise and fall of the planned economy and its long-lasting effects on transition / Serguey Braguinsky.
  • Part three: Politics. Romancing a millenarian state : from Petrograd to Raqqa / Leon Aron
  • Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the dialectical quarrels of post-war Europe / Marius Stan
  • China's enduring Leninist toolkit : perspectives on CCP organization and ideology / Margaret M. Pearson
  • Reductio ad Reaganum : reflections on communism's enduring ideological invulnerability / Venelin I. Ganev
  • Ideology and violence in communist Venezuela / Jordan Luber.
  • Part four: Society and culture. Communist rhetoric as official practices of discourse : making epideictic arguments on authority and national identity / Noemi Marin
  • Selective repression and democratic opposition in post-totalitarian Hungary / András Bozóki
  • Lost in Protochronia : ideological Dada in Ceaușescu's Romania / Mircea Mihǎieș
  • The road to liberation theology : experiments at the intersection of confessional and secular religion / Piotr H. Kosicki
  • Philosophical lessons from the Bolshevik experiment / Marci Shore.

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