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050	0	0	_aHX 36 _b.B76 2009
082	0	4	_a320.53/2 _222
100	1		_aBrown, Archie, _d1938-
245	1	4	_aThe rise and fall of communism / _cArchie Brown.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York : _bEcco, _cc2009.
300			_axv, 720 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [623]-688) and index.
505	0		_aPt. 1. Origins and development. The idea of communism ; Communism and socialism : the early years ; The Russian revolutions and civil war ; 'Building socialism' : Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917-40 ; International communism between the two world wars ; What do we mean by a communist system? -- Pt. 2. Communism ascendant. The appeals of communism ; Communism and the Second World War ; The communist takeovers in Europe : indigenous paths ; The communist takeovers in Europe : Soviet impositions ; The communists take power in China ; Post-war Stalinism and the break with Yugoslavia -- Pt. 3. Surviving without Stalin. Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress ; Zig-zags on the road to 'communism' ; Revisionism and revolution in Eastern Europe ; Cuba : a Caribbean communist state ; China : from the 'Hundred Flowers' to 'Cultural Revolution' ; Communism in Asia and Africa ; The 'Prague Spring' ; 'The era of stagnation' : the Soviet Union under Brezhnev -- Pt. 4. Pluralizing pressures. The challenge from Poland : John Paul II, Lech Wałesa, and the rise of solidarity ; Reform in China : Deng Xiaoping and after ; The challenge of the West -- Pt. 5. Interpreting the fall of communism. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the attempt to reform communism, 1985-87 ; The dismantling of Soviet communism, 1988-89 ; The end of communism in Europe ; The break-up of the Soviet state ; Why did communism last so long? ; What caused the collapse of communism? ; What's left of communism?
520			_aTraces the origins of the communist ideology through its collapse in many nations following Perestroika, in an extensively researched volume that also explores communism's current incarnations.
520			_aThe Rise and Fall of Communism explores how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents, to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aCommunism _xHistory.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2009279195-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1002/2009279195-d.html
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