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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics Series |
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Routledge Library Editions: Soviet Politics Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Marxism-Leninism -- Definitions -- Political Terms -- Types of Economy -- The Communist Doctrine -- Pluses -- Minuses -- Chapter 2 The Stalinist Model and its Collapse -- The 1917 Revolution -- The Consolidation of Communism -- The Stalinist Model -- The Communist Party -- The Executive Branch -- The Supreme Soviet -- Judicial Structure -- Social Groups -- The Soviet Empire -- Gorbachev's Reforms -- Party Reforms |
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Legislative Reforms -- The Failed Coup -- The End of the Empire -- The New Republics Pick up the Pieces -- Summary -- Chapter 3 The Dynamics of Soviet and Russian Foreign Policies -- Origins of the Cold War -- Consolidation of the East European Empire -- Rival Military and Economic Alliances -- Détente and Nuclear Arms Control -- A New Era of Collaboration -- Summary -- Chapter 4 The End of Communism in the Northern Satellites -- Hungary's Anti-Communism -- Poland's Solidarity Strikes First -- Czechoslovakia-The Third Time is the Charm -- Focus on East Germany -- Summary |
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Chapter 5 The End of Communism in the Southern Tier -- Yugoslavia Leaves the Soviet Bloc -- Romania Revolts -- Even Bulgaria Reforms -- Albania, the Last Holdout -- Patterns of Stalinist Controls and the Democratic Revolutions -- Chapter 6 Communism Chinese Style -- Origins of the Revolution -- The Great Leap Forward and Economic Disaster -- The Cultural Revolution -- Political and Economic Reforms Under Deng Xiaoping -- Reaction to Tiananmen -- The Legacies of Mao and Deng -- Chapter 7 China's Relations with the West and the Communist World -- Relations with the United States Before World War II |
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Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split -- Red China Confronts the United States -- The Sino-Soviet Split -- The Open Door to the United States and the West -- Aftermath of the Tiananmen Tragedy -- Chapter 8 Asian Communist States and Their Wars -- Kim Il Sung's North Korea -- Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam -- War of Independence -- War for South Vietnam -- The Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- The Cambodian Holocaust -- Laos-A Vietnam Satellite -- The Afghanistan War -- Mongolia-A Forgotten Satellite -- Patterns of Communist Wars in Asia -- Chapter 9 Communist Challenges in Latin America -- Castro's Cuba |
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The Soviet Missiles -- Castro's Communism -- The Communist Threats to Nicaragua and Peru -- Chapter 10 Communism and its Prospects -- The Grand Experiment -- Patterns of Communist Party Domination -- Strategies of Political Reform -- Economic Failures and Strategies of Reform -- Revolutions in Communist Foreign Policies -- The End of the Soviet Empires -- Former Communist Countries -- China Leaves the Door Ajar -- Vietnam -- North Korea -- Latin America -- Summary -- A New Era of International Relations -- Appendix 1 Excerpts from the Communist Manifesto-1848 -- Bourgeoisie and Proletarians |
| Summary |
Communism in Transition (1993) examines the mainstays of Communist ideology, and goes on to look at the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe. It also analyses Asian and Latin American Communist systems and their challenges to the non-Communist world, and concludes by evaluating the democratic revolutions in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, their possible effect on other Communist states, why the revolutions surprised Western pundits, and the implications of these events for world peace |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Amos Yoder is Borah Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science from the University of Idaho. He taught international relations courses there from 1974 to 1991. Before then, he was in the diplomatic service of the Department of State for 25 years, assigned to United Nations, Chinese, German, and politico-military affairs in Washington, DC; to U.S. embassies in Thailand and Israel; and to international conferences. In 1986-1987 he taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China, as a Fulbright professor, and in 1991 he taught at the L. Kossuth University at Debrecen, Hungary, as a Fulbright professor. He has published articles and books, including The Conduct of American Foreign Policy since World War II, World Politics and the Causes of War since 1914, International Politics and Policymakers' Ideas, The Evolution of the United Nations System, and Communist Systems and Challenges |
| Subject |
Communism -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040006610 |
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1040006612 |
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9781032675909 |
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103267590X |
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9781040006566 |
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1040006566 |
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