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Building a Ruin : The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform.
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ISBN: 9780674296664 9780674296657 0674296656 0674296664 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press

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Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the West, Khrushchev and his successors sought to build a consumer society but had only Stalinist institutions of mass mobilization to work with, resulting in unresolvable contradiction and eventual sclerosis.


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Vanguard of the Revolution : The Global Idea of the Communist Party
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ISBN: 1400888492 0691168946 0691196427 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings.Taking readers from the drafting of The Communist Manifesto in the 1840s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, McAdams describes the decisive role played by individual rulers in the success of their respective parties-men like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro. He demonstrates how these personalities drew on vying conceptions of the party's functions to mesmerize their followers, mobilize their populations, and transform their societies. He also shows how many of these figures abused these ideas to justify incomprehensible acts of inhumanity. McAdams explains why communist parties lasted as long as they did, and why they either disappeared or ceased to be meaningful institutions by the close of the twentieth century.The first comprehensive political history of the communist party, Vanguard of the Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

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Communism --- History. --- Activism. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Capitalism. --- Central Committee. --- Chairman. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- China. --- Class conflict. --- Collective leadership. --- Cominform. --- Communism. --- Communist International. --- Communist Party USA. --- Communist Party of China. --- Communist Party of Germany. --- Communist Party of the Russian Federation. --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union. --- Communist party. --- Communist state. --- Comrade. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Criticism. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Democracy. --- Democratic centralism. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- Despotism. --- Dictatorship of the proletariat. --- Dictatorship. --- Employment. --- Erich Honecker. --- Failed state. --- French Communist Party. --- Governance. --- Government. --- Grigory Zinoviev. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Institution. --- Insurrectionary anarchism. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Josip Broz Tito. --- Kuomintang. --- Labor unrest. --- Left-wing politics. --- Leninism. --- Leon Trotsky. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- Liu Shaoqi. --- Majority. --- Manifesto. --- Mao Zedong. --- Maoism. --- Marxism. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mass mobilization. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- Nationalization. --- New Course. --- New Economic Policy. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Nikolai Bukharin. --- Paris Commune. --- Party discipline. --- Party leader. --- Politburo. --- Political party. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Pretext. --- Proclamation. --- Proletarian revolution. --- Protest. --- Rebellion. --- Reformism. --- Regime. --- Representative democracy. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Self-determination. --- Social democracy. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet people. --- Stalinism. --- Strike action. --- Supporter. --- The Communist Manifesto. --- Trade union. --- Unintended consequences. --- Vanguardism. --- Voting. --- War. --- Working class. --- Yugoslavia. --- Zhou Enlai.


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We All Lost the Cold War
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ISBN: 1400812496 1282751824 9786612751820 1400821088 9781400821082 069101941X 9780691019413 1400804809 1400804817 Year: 1995 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers.

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Nuclear warfare. --- Nuclear weapons. --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. --- Cold War. --- Atomic warfare --- CBR warfare --- Nuclear strategy --- Nuclear war --- Thermonuclear warfare --- War --- Nuclear crisis control --- Nuclear weapons --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 1962 --- World politics --- History --- Soviet Union --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 1960 U-2 incident. --- Abstention. --- Allen Dulles. --- Allied-occupied Germany. --- Andrei Gromyko. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Anti-war movement. --- Assassination. --- Berlin Blockade. --- Berlin Crisis of 1961. --- Berlin Wall. --- Blockade. --- Ceasefire. --- Censorship. --- Cold War II. --- Communist revolution. --- Containment. --- Coup d'état. --- Cuban Missile Crisis. --- Dean Rusk. --- Decapitation. --- Declaration of war. --- Deterrence theory. --- Dictatorship. --- Disarmament. --- Disinformation. --- Dissolution of the Soviet Union. --- Doomsday device. --- Dr. Strangelove. --- Embargo. --- Era of Stagnation. --- Evil empire. --- Failed state. --- Fallout shelter. --- George Ball (diplomat). --- Glasnost. --- Henry Kissinger. --- Hungarian Revolution of 1956. --- Impeachment. --- Impunity. --- International crisis. --- Jimmy Carter. --- John F. Kennedy. --- John Foster Dulles. --- John Mueller. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- McCarthyism. --- McGeorge Bundy. --- Minimal deterrence. --- Minister without portfolio. --- Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. --- Moscow Conference (1941). --- Mutual assured destruction. --- NATO. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Nuclear blackmail. --- Nuclear disarmament. --- Nuclear holocaust. --- Old Bolshevik. --- Operation Barbarossa. --- Perestroika. --- Persecution. --- Pessimism. --- Political prisoner. --- Pre-emptive nuclear strike. --- Preventive war. --- Proxy war. --- Purge. --- Quarantine Speech. --- Ridicule. --- Roswell Gilpatric. --- Roy Medvedev. --- Saturday Night Massacre. --- Sergei Khrushchev. --- Soviet Empire. --- Soviet Navy. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet Union–United States relations. --- Soviet people. --- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. --- Soviet–Afghan War. --- Stalinism. --- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. --- Superiority (short story). --- Surgical strike. --- The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. --- There is no alternative. --- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. --- War at Sea. --- War of Attrition. --- War of ideas. --- War termination. --- War-weariness. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Why England Slept. --- Yom Kippur War.

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