Patrick Zander

The Rise of Communism

History, Documents, and Key Questions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the Communist political phenomenon, including the origins and development of Communism as well as the revolutions that led to the rise of the major Communist states around the world. Written for high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this book surveys the global rise of Communism. It begins with a timeline and narrative overview, which are followed by reference entries, primary source documents, and original argumentative essays on enduring issues related to Communism. The book first covers the earliest phases of the "Utopian Socialist" movement and the beginnings of Marxist theory. It then discusses the Russian Revolution of 1917; the creation of the Soviet Union; the regime of terror instituted by Stalin; the expansion of Communism during the years of the Cold War, particularly in Asia; and the Cuban Revolution and the regime of Fidel Castro. It also discusses the progression toward revolution among the European Satellite countries as it included the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Czech revolution of 1968, and the multiple revolutions from 1989-1991 that saw the collapse of the Soviet system and the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781440847059
• ISBN-10: 1440847053
• Artikelnr.: 50205758

Autorenporträt

Patrick G. Zander is associate professor of history at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA. His Hidden Armies of the Second World War was named a 2018 Choice "Outstanding Academic Title."

Inhaltsangabe

Alphabetical List of Entries Topical List of Entries How to Use This Book
Preface Timeline Historical Overview The Rise of Communism: A to Z Primary
Documents Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
(February 1848) Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of
Capitalism (1917) Vladimir Lenin, The "April Theses" (April 1917) The Call
for a Popular Front against Fascism: "Resolution of the Seventh World
Congress of the Communist International" (August 1935) Joseph Stalin's
Response to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (March 14, 1946) Mao Zedong
Calls for a People's Democratic Dictatorship (June 1949) Kim Il-Sung,
Address to the Korean People on the Occasion of the Liberation of Pyong
Yang (December 1950) Manifesto of the South Vietnam National Liberation
Front (1961) Communication from Nikita Khrushchev to President John F.
Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 28, 1962) The Central
Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, "The Sixteen Points of the
Cultural Revolution" (August 8, 1966) Key Questions Question 1: Was
Communism an Inherently Flawed Theoretical Conception That Would Inevitably
Lead to Repressive, Totalitarian States, or Was It a Promising Theory
Twisted by Particular Individuals and Institutions Making Communist Regimes
Particularly Repressive and Violent? Question 2: Did Communism Provide a
Particularly Strong System for the Rapid Advancement of Science and
Technology, or Was Such Development Impeded by the Communist System and
Inevitably Doomed to Lag Behind the Democratic/Capitalist States? Question
3: Were Cold War Fears about the Communists' Intentions and Means for the
Continual Spread of Communism and Eventual World Domination Justified on
the Part of the Western Democracies? Selected Annotated Bibliography Index
About the Author and Contributors