Communism A TLS Companion

Name: Communism A TLS Companion
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ISBN: 9780226543239

ISBN-10: 0226543234

ISBN-13: 9780226543239

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ferdinand Mount

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From the overthrow of the tsars until the sudden collapse of Soviet communism, the most influential Western analysts have reflected on and debated the rise and fall of communism in the pages of the TLS. The diverse opinions gathered in Communism: A TLS Companion reflect the succession of Western attitudes to the birth, growth, and death of communism. Contributors to this volume include Isaac Deutscher, Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Pipes, Hugh Seton-Watson, Robert Conquest, Geoffrey Hosking, C. M. Woodhouse, Max Hayward, Leszek Kolakowski, Timothy Garton Ash, and many others of equal distinction. The volume is arranged in four sections covering the period leading to the Russian Revolution, the…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.46" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939. For many years he was a columnist at the Spectator and then the Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. In between, he was head of the Downing Street Policy Unit and then editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is now a prize-winning novelist, author of the bestselling memoir Cold Cream, and most recently the controversial The New Few. He lives in London.



Editor's Note


Introduction




Distant Thunder, 1902-1917


The Failure of Russia Secret Agents in Peckham



The Coming Extinction of Socialism Marx Overrated



The February Revolution Arthur Clutton-Brock Which Revolution?



The Achievement of Power, 1918-1939 Marx and the New World Order Arthur Shadwell ""Tsar Nicholas the Third"" C. E. Beckhofer Trotsky's Russian Revolution C. E. Beckhofer Memories of Lenin Harold Stannard The Five-Year Plan



A New Civilization? Ernest Barker Spender's Conversion



Homage to the Colossus, 1940-1968 Darkness at Noon



After the Nazi-Soviet Pact R. D. Charques Without the Question Mark


The Road to Serfdom A Brief Visit to Animal Farm From Burmese Days to Nineteen Eighty-Four Julian Symons Stalin Victorious



The God That Failed Chambers as Witness Shortages, Pollution



The Defection of Djilas C. M. Woodhouse Czechoslovakia under



Solzhenitsyn Published in the U.S.S.R



The Comintern Betrayed Isaac Deutscher Intellectuals and Communism



Fifty Years on E. H. Carr The Great Terror



Disillusion and Collapse, 1969-1991 Satellites since Stalin



The Beginnings of Dissent


The Pock-marked God Richard Pipes Conflict in



The Myth of Euro-communism Paul Johnson Notes from Underground



The Gulag Archipelago Geoffrey Hosking The China-Watchers



A History in the Making Leopold Labedz Among the Ruins of Marxism John Gray August 1914 Geoffrey Hosking Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four Timothy



The Purge Expurgated Robert Conquest Kerensky Reconsidered John Keep Religion and Marxism



Translating Nineteen Eighty-Four



The Murderous Gerontocracy



Skeletons in the Archives Norman Stone Scribes at the Trough Ronald Hingley Total Fears



The Leader of the Prologue Archie Brown


The Fall of Lenin Robert Conquest Chronology of Events


Notes on Contributors


Index of Contributors and of Books and Authors Reviewed