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Complete Idiot's Guide to Communism

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ISBN-10: 0028643143

ISBN-13: 9780028643144

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rodney Carlisle, James Lide

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From American and international attempts at communal living to Marx and Engels, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Mao and the fall of communism in the late 20th century, this guide to communism tells the story of the ideology and history of one of the biggest 'isms' that has shaped the world.
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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Rodney P. Carlisle is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he taught in the History Department from 1966 to 2002.nbsp; H received his undergraduate degree in history from Harvard College and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

From Community To Communism
Communes and Communities
Roots of Communes
Religious Utopias
Founding of Nonreligious Communes
Legacies
Marx and Engels
The Life and Times of Karl Marx
Marx's Theory of History
Marx's Economic Analysis
The Inescapable Proletarian Revolution
Arise, Ye Workers of the World!
The First International
The Paris Commune
The Collapse of the First International
The Second International
Varieties of Working Class Movements
The IWW and Anarcho-Syndicalism
Formation of the IWW
First Leaders
Early Factionalism
IWW Tactics
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Paterson, New Jersey
Free Speech
IWW During WWI
IWW in Decline
Legacy of the Wobblies
Socialist Parties
Early Socialists in the United States
Meanwhile, in Europe
Socialists and World War I
American SP Reactions to Bolshevism
Socialism Diminished, Continues
Socialism in a Democracy
Mother Russia
The Russian Revolution
The Tsarist Regime
The First Revolution in Russia, March
The Bolshevik Seizure of Power,
The Russian Civil War, 1918-1920
Lenin and the Communist Regime
Instruments of Communist Rule
A Giant Leap Backward: Lenin's New Economic Policy
Soviet Foreign Policy and the Third International
The Death of Lenin and the Struggle for Succession
Stalin and the Purges
Stalin's Life and Ideology
Socialism in One Country
The Great Leap Forward
The Purges
Making Friends And Enemies
The Communist Party in the U.S. and Britain in the 1920s
Birth Pangs of the CPUSA
Recognizing the USSR
Come to the Party: CPUSA
Obstacles to CP Growth
Political Responses to Crisis
Communist Strategy in the Early 1930s
Splinters and Splits
American Ferment
The CP Organizations
From Isolation to Popular Front
Spanish Civil War: Loyal Communists and Rebel Conservatives
Background to the War
The Army vs
The Government
Foreign Interventions
Fascists Help Franco
Britain, Canada, and the United States React
Civil War with a Civil War
The Soviet Union in World War II
Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1930s
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
The German Attack on the Soviet Union
The Keys to the Soviet Victory
Soviet Foreign Policy and the Postwar Division of Europe
Communist Expansion And The Cold War
Satellites In (and Out of) Orbit
Party Politics or Russian Policy? Bulgaria-A Stalinist Regime
Romania
Albania
Mao Zedong and the Communist Revolution in China
The Old Regime in China
The Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party Discovers the Peasantry
The Struggle Against the Japanese
The Communist Victory
Domestic Reforms and Foreign Crises
The Communist Party and the Cold War
Cold War, Sometimes Hot
Comintern to Cominform
German Issues
NATO and WTO
Weapons of War
Nuclear Arms Race
Nikita Khrushchev
Communists in the U.S.
Red Scare
Internal Splits in the CPUSA
U.S.
Government Crackdown on the Party
Political Opponents of Communism
Espionage Cases
Joseph McCarthy Gets an Idea
Trouble in Paradise
Veteran Leaders
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
The Czech Case
Hungary Resists
Prague Spring
Poland Boils Over
Rebels and Resisters
Yugoslavia: A Separate Road
A Divided or United Land? The Cominform
Some Free Thinking
The Powder Keg
China's Second Revolution and the Sino-Soviet Split
Agricultural Collectivization and the Great Leap Forward
Mao's Cultural Revolution
The Sino-Soviet Split
The Death of Mao and Struggles for Succession
From Advance To Retreat
National Liberation and Communism in the Third World
Communism in the Third World
Asia: Empires in Disarray
Africa and the Middle East
Latin America and the Cuban Revolution
Cracks in the Iron Curtain: Crisis and Reform in the Soviet Union
The Economic Crisis
Rising Foreign Tensions
Political Uncertainties
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power
Reds in Retreat: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Soviet Union Abandons the Military Option
A Wave of Revolutions in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union
An Uncertain Future
Remnants
The Five in
Wars Against the United States
End of Cold War
The End of the Road?
Appendixes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index