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THE CAUSE OF RECENT REFORMS IN COMMUNIST EAST ASIA APPEARS TO BE THE PRODUCTION IMPERATIVE. BUT IT IS A MISTAKE TO ASSUME THAT THE CAUSE OF REFORM IS THE SAME THROUGHOUT COMMUNIST EAST ASIA OR THAT A SINGLE REFORM PROCESS IS UNDER WAY. ALTHOUGH THE PRODUCTION IMPERATIVE CAN BE A STIMULUS TO REFORM, IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL NOR IS IT SUFFICIENT ALONE. A NATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY'S SEARCH FOR LEGITIMACY OR ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USSR MAY SPUR REFORM. MOREOVER, THE PRODUCTION IMPERATIVE MAY BE A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DESIRE TO REFORM, RATHER THAN A CAUSE.

Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors to Volume III -- Introduction to Volume III -- Part I Globalism and Crisis -- 1 The Global 1968 and International Communism -- 2 The Vietnam War as a World Event -- 3 The Soviet Union and the Global Cold War -- 4 Marxist Revolutions and Regimes in Latin America and Africa in the 1970s -- 5 Cambodia: Detonator of Communism's Implosion -- 6 Human Rights and Communism -- 7 Reform Communism -- 8 The Decline of Soviet-Type Economies -- 9 Europe's "1989" in Global Context -- 10 The Collapse of the Soviet Union -- Part II Everyday Socialism and Lived Experiences -- 11 The Aging Pioneer: Late Soviet Socialist Society, Its Challenges and Challengers -- 12 Communism and Religion -- 13 Visualizing the Socialist Public Sphere -- Plates -- 14 Communist Propaganda and Media in the Era of the Cold War -- 15 The Zones of Late Socialist Literature -- 16 Feminism, Communism and Global Socialism: Encounters and Entanglements -- 17 The Communist and Postsocialist Gender Order in Russia and China -- Part III Transformations and Legacies -- 18 Make Some Get Rich First: State Consumerism and Private Enterprise in the Creation of Postsocialist China -- 19 China's Human Development After Socialism -- 20 China's Postsocialist Transformation and Global Resurgence: Political Economy and Geopolitics -- 21 Communism and Environment -- 22 Legacies of Communism: Comparative Remarks -- 23 State Communism at 100: Remembering and Forgetting the Russian Revolution -- 24 Thirty Years After: The End of European Communism in Historical Perspective -- Index.

Communism Comes to Eastern Europe -- Creating a Stalinist Society -- Socialist Modernity in the 1950s and 1960s -- Reform and Retrenchment, 1956-1968 -- Consumerism and its Consequences during Late Socialism -- Decade of Crisis -- From Communism to Neoliberalism -- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century

The emergence of Teng Hsiao-p'ing and his closest allies as pre-eminent powerholders in mainland China in the early 1980s was taken by many in the West to herald an era of major reformism in Chinese politics because of the Teng faction's longstanding hostility to Maoist radicalism and because of the defeat of the "leftists" associated with Hua Kuo-feng and the declining power of the "veteral cadres" who opposed any significant political and economic change. The author seeks to evaluate the question of what these reforms will likely to bring by comparing mainland China to the well-established communist regime in the USSR. The author opines that the centrepiece of Teng's reforms so has been in the economic realm. (DÜI-Sen)