Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism's origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism's organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion—and an important message for the twenty-first century—is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
Author(s): Robert Service
Edition: First
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: Reupped. djvu to pdf (loseless), OCR (Cleartype), Bookmarked, Smaller File Size
City: Cambridge
Tags: History, Communism
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CONTENTS
Preface
Maps
THE SOVIET UNION, 1924-36
EASTER EUROPE AND THE WESTERN USSR AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
CHINA AFTER 1949
CUBA
SOUTH-EAST ASIA, 1975
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE ORIGINS TO 1917
1 . COMMUNISM BEFORE MARXISM
2. MARX AND ENGELS
3 . COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
4. RUSSIAN VARIATIONS
5. THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
6. THE FIRST COMMUNIST STATE
PART TWO EXPERIMENT 1917 - 1929
7. EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS
8. COMMUNISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
9. THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
10. PROBING AMERICA
11 . MAKING SENSE OF COMMUNISM
12 . THE USSR IN TORMENT
13 . THE SOVIET MODEL
PART THREE DEVELOPMENT 1929 - 1947
14. WORLD STRATEGY
15. STALINIST IDEOLOGY
16. INSIDE THE PARTIES
17. FRIENDS AND FOES
18. COMMUNISM IN THE WORLD WAR
19. FORCING THE PEACE
PART FOUR REPRODUCTION 1947 - 1957
20. THE COLD WAR AND THE SOVIET BLOC
21. THE YUGOSLAV ROAD
22. WESTERN EUROPE
23. WARRING PROPAGANDA
24. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
25. ORGANISING COMMUNISM
26. AGAINST AND FOR REFORM
PART FIVE MUTATION 1957 - 1979
27. DETENTE AND EXPANSION
28. CHINA CONVULSED
29. REVOLUTIONARY CUBA
30. COMMUNIST ORDER
31. RETHINKING COMMUNISM
32. EUROPE EAST AND WEST
33. REDUCED EXPECTATIONS
34. LAST OF THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS
PART SIX ENDINGS FROM 1980
35. ROADS FROM COMMUNISM
36. ANTI-COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE
37. CHINA'S CAPITALIST COMMUNISM
38. PERESTROIKA
39. THE COMRADES DEPART
40. ACCOUNTING FOR COMMUNISM
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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