Nikolas K Gvosdev

The Strange Death of Soviet Communism

A Postscript

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781412806978
• ISBN-10: 1412806976
• Artikelnr.: 22980695

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