The Strange Death of Soviet Communism: A Postscript
Autor Nikolas K. Gvosdeven Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2008
Francis Fukuyama considers the role of long-term social and intellectual modernization while Vladimir Kontorovich examines the related factor of economic stagnation. Myron Rush then analyzes the accidental and precedent-breaking accession and leadership of Gorbachev. Charles Fairbanks looks at the more general factors of change and rigidity within communist political culture. Chapters by Peter Reddaway and Stephen Sestanovich conclude this section by assessing respectively the role of internal pressure from Soviet citizens and external pressure from the West. The next chapters deal with why the West was surprised by the communist collapse. This involves a critique of Western Sovietology both for its scholarly failures and its ideological prejudices. Here, Peter Rutland and William Odom deal with social science interpretations of the Soviet Union while Robert Conquest and Richard Pipes reflect on historians' readings of Soviet history. Martin Malia then offers a comparative assessment of both. In the third section Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer discuss communism in relation to the intellectuals in the West.
Although the authors are united in their anti-communist stance, the volume is diverse in its perspectives and assessments of Soviet communism. Taken together, these contributions show that the debate on the legacy of communism and a subsequent rethinking of modern history is just beginning. The Strange Death of Soviet Communism will be of interest to historians, political scientists, Slavic studies specialists, and sociologists.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781412806985
ISBN-10: 1412806984
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1412806984
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1: Why Did It Happen?; 1: The Modern Polybius; 2: The Modernizing Imperative: The USSR as an Ordinary Country; 3: Fortune and Fate; 4: Did the West Undo the East?; 5: The Economic Fallacy; 6: The Nature of the Beast; 7: The Role of Popular Discontent; 2: Sins of the Scholars; 8: 1917 and the Revisionists; 9: A Fatal Logic; 10: Academe and the Soviet Myth; 11: The Pluralist Mirage; 12: Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortem; 3: Intellectuals and Communism; 13: Did We Go Too Far?; 14: My Cold War; 4: Epilogue; 15: The Arithmetic of Atrocity; 16: The Long Goodbye—And Eric’s Consoling Lies; 17: Judging Nazism and Communism; 18: Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failed
Descriere
The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history