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The Strange Death of Soviet Communism: A Postscript

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Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Why Did It Happen? -- 1. The Modern Polybius -- 2. The Modernizing Imperative: -- 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 3: Intellectuals and Communism -- 13. Did We Go Too Far? -- 14. My Cold War -- 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 -- Index

Languages

English

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

ISBN

9781351473200

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