Contents
Part One:
Origins and Development
1. The Idea of Communism
2. Communism and Socialism – the Early Years
3. The Russian Revolutions and Civil War
4. ‘Building Socialism’: Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–40
5. International Communism between the Two World Wars
6. What Do We Mean by a Communist System?
Part Two:
Communism Ascendant
7. The Appeals of Communism
8. Communism and the Second World War
9. The Communist Takeovers in Europe – Indigenous Paths
10. The Communist Takeovers in Europe – Soviet Impositions
11. The Communists Take Power in China
12. Post-War Stalinism and the Break with Yugoslavia
Part Three:
Surviving without Stalin
13. Khrushchev and the Twentieth Party Congress
14. Zig-zags on the Road to ‘communism’
15. Revisionism and Revolution in Eastern Europe
16. Cuba: A Caribbean Communist State
17. China: From the ‘Hundred Flowers’ to ‘Cultural Revolution’
18. Communism in Asia and Africa
19. The ‘Prague Spring’
20. ‘The Era of Stagnation’: The Soviet Union under Brezhnev
Part Four:
Pluralizing Pressures
21. The Challenge from Poland: John Paul II, Lech Wa
esa, and the Rise of Solidarity
22. Reform in China: Deng Xiaoping and After
23. The Challenge of the West
Part Five:
Interpreting the Fall of Communism
24. Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Attempt to Reform Communism, 1985–87
25. The Dismantling of Soviet Communism, 1988–89
26. The End of Communism in Europe
27. The Break-up of the Soviet State
28. Why Did Communism Last so Long?
29. What Caused the Collapse of Communism?
30. What’s Left of Communism?