Nikolas K Gvosdev

The Strange Death of Soviet Communism

A PostScript

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Produktbeschreibung

The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history. This work brings together scholars of Soviet history, who show why the experiment (on modes of organization to social life) failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of socialist utopias.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781412806985
• ISBN-10: 1412806984
• Artikelnr.: 22972639

Autorenporträt

Nikolas K. Gvosdev

Inhaltsangabe

1: Why Did It Happen?
1: The Modern Polybius
2: The Modernizing Imperative: The USSR as an Ordinary Country
3: Fortune and Fate
4: Did the West Undo the East?
5: The Economic Fallacy
6: The Nature of the Beast
7: The Role of Popular Discontent
2: Sins of the Scholars
8: 1917 and the Revisionists
9: A Fatal Logic
10: Academe and the Soviet Myth
11: The Pluralist Mirage
12: Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortem
3: Intellectuals and Communism
13: Did We Go Too Far?
14: My Cold War
4: Epilogue
15: The Arithmetic of Atrocity
16: The Long Goodbye-And Eric's Consoling Lies
17: Judging Nazism and Communism
18: Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failed