Short History of Communism (9781466888074) by Harvey, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Dedication Foreword Maps Epigraph Introduction Part I: Explosion

1. The Deity

Marx and Marxism The Six Commandments Pre-revolutionary Russia: Towards the First World War Russia: Westernizers and Slavophiles

2. The Prophet

Lenin From War to Revolution The Revolution: International Repercussions

3. The Butcher

The Rise of Stalin The Real Russian Revolution The Second World War and After Stalin’s Legacy: Russia and Eastern Europe Yugoslavia Berlin

4. The Dreamer

The Young Mao Peasant Power The Long March Perpetual Renewal The Fall and Rise of Mao

5. Global Conflagration

Ho Chi Minh Year Zero: Cambodia Africa Portugal: The End of Empire Fidel Castro and Latin America

Part II: The Communist Universe

6. Middle Age

Khrushchev and Reform Levers of Power: Brezhnev and his Successors In the Soviet State

7. Perpetual Revolution

The Sino-Soviet Divide The Cultural Revolution Deng Xiaoping In the Chinese State The Death of Chinese Communism

8. Enforced Revolution

The Great Oppressions: Hungary and Czechoslovakia ‘It All Started in Gdansk…’: Poland

9. Schisms

The Eurocommunist Heresy Southeast Asia: The Victors Fall Out Arab Socialism Afghanistan Latin America: Exporting Revolution

Part III: The Collapse

10. The Redeemer

The Last of the Behemoths: Andropov and Chernenko The Soviet Crisis Gorbachev Takes the Reins

11. Whirlwind

The Unravelling Eastern Europe: All Fall Down The Return of Yeltsin

12. The Kill

The Soviet Union Unravels: The Fall of Gorbachev Conclusion

Appendix Index By the same author Copyright