The Secret World of American Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret World of American Communism write by Harvey Klehr. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Secret World of American Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The hidden world of American communism can now be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. Interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Part of the the United States of America (CPUSA), providing proof that it was involved in espionage and other subversive activitives. 16 illustrations.
Comrades!
Comrades! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comrades! write by Robert Service. This book was released on 2007. Comrades! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Service offers a history of communism, drawing the uncomfortable conclusion that the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compelling, this is a comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Book of Communism write by Stéphane Courtois. This book was released on 1999. The Black Book of Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929
The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929 write by Jacob Zumoff. This book was released on 2014-08-21. The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Cold War, most historians have set up an opposition between the “American” and “international” aspects of early American Communism. This book examines the development of the Communist Party in its first decade, from 1919 to 1929. Using the archives of the Communist International, this book, in contrast to previous studies, argues that the International played an important role in the early part of this decade in forcing the party to “Americanise”. Special attention is given to the attempts by the Comintern to orient American Communists on the role of black oppression, and to see the struggle for black liberation and the fight for socialism as inextricably linked. The later sections of the book provide the most detailed account now available of how the Comintern, reflecting the Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, intervened in the American party to ensure the Stalinisation of American Communism.
The Rise and Demise of World Communism
The Rise and Demise of World Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise and Demise of World Communism write by George W. Breslauer. This book was released on 2021-08-04. The Rise and Demise of World Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China, had the world's largest population. At communism's high point, its adherents envisioned global triumph. Today, however, only five communist regimes remain in power. Why? In The Rise and Demise of World Communism, George Breslauer, a specialist who has spent decades observing the evolution of communist states, provides a sweeping history of the world communist movement, focusing in particular on what communist states shared in common and why they began to differ from each other over time. Throughout, Breslauer explores the relations among communist states as well as the relations between those states and the world of increasingly affluent, and militarily formidable, democratic-capitalist powers. He finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that valued "revolutionary violence" as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx's vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin's conception of party organization. As Breslauer shows, all these regimes went on to "build socialism" according to a Stalinist template and were initially dedicated to "anti-imperialist struggle" as members of a world communist movement. But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement and eventually led to the collapse of European communism. Even though a few communist regimes still remain in power, the dream of world communism is dead. But the future of the remaining communist regimes is uncertain. An accessible history of one of the most important political phenomena of the past 150 years, The Rise and Demise of World Communism provides readers with a crisp account of the entire movement--from the theories of Marx and Lenin to the on-the-ground policies of Stalin, Mao, Gorbachev, Deng, and other communist leaders-that culminates in our own era.
