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Author : Leonard Schapiro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349095095
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Communist Autocracy written by Leonard Schapiro and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Schapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258781149
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Communist Autocracy written by Leonard Schapiro and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard Schapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State written by Leonard Schapiro and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Competitive Authoritarianism written by Steven Levitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.
Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667528
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism written by S. A. Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.
Author : Bálint Magyar
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863708
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes written by Bálint Magyar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.
Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521529365
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book The Origins of the Stalinist Political System written by Graeme Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from 1917 to 1941.
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780393803
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Revelations from the Russian Archives written by Diane P. Koenker and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald I. Kowalski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349103675
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Bolshevik Party in Conflict written by Ronald I. Kowalski and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the part played by the left Communists following the Russian revolution, the largest opposition to state socialism until the 1990s. The author feels that the leftist's vision offered no viable model for the construction of a democratic socialist society.
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307372243
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Communism written by Archie Brown and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produced the most profound political changes of the last few decades. In this illuminating book, based on forty years of study and a wealth of new sources, Archie Brown provides a comprehensive history as well as an original and highly readable analysis of an ideology that has shaped the world and still rules over a fifth of humanity. A compelling new work from an internationally renowned specialist, The Rise and Fall of Communism promises to be the definitive study of the most remarkable political and human story of our times.
Author : Thomas M. Twiss
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004269533
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy written by Thomas M. Twiss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.
Author : Brendan McGeever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107195993
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution written by Brendan McGeever and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.
Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415169925
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Soviet Politics in Perspective written by Richard Sakwa and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated, this text offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the Soviet system from its rise in 1919 to the 1991 collapse.
Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369879
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929 written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy is explored in the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from 1917 through the early 1930s through the changing fortunes of its peoples.
Author : Christopher Reed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135366268
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book From Tsar To Soviets written by Christopher Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the perspective of the factory worker and peasant at the ground level, this study of Russia during the Revolution 1917-21 aims to shed light on the realities of living through and participating in these tumultuous events. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in history, Soviet studies, and politics.
Author : Ronald Suny
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788730755
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Red Flag Wounded written by Ronald Suny and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism. Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.
Author : J. Gooding
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913870
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Socialism in Russia written by J. Gooding and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks three fundamental questions about the socialist experiment in twentieth-century Russia: How did Marxist ideas come to be implemented in Russia, a country entirely unsuited to them? Why did the experiment lead to such suffering and upheaval and prove so fruitless? And why did the attempt to return to a proper Marxism/Leninism bring about the rapid collapse of the experiment. In its answers, this book pays special attention to the shadow cast by Lenin throughout the entire Soviet era.
