Debates on the future of communism
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Debates on the future of communism
（A Foreign Policy Research Institute book）
Macmillan, 1991
Available at 15 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of essays analyzing the future of communism in the light of contemporary reforms. A number of critical intellectuals who have personally experienced the communist system, present a number of analyses ranging from the optimistic to the foreboding.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Strengths and weaknesses of communist states today: communism's strength - democracy's weakness, Ferene Feher
- sources of strength and stress, Mihailo Marakovic
- from paralysis to self-destruction, Carlos Franqui
- dynamics of militarism in revolutionary Nicaragua, Humberto Belli
- a dangerous civilization, Edward Kuznetsov
- crocodiles cannot fly, Alexander Zinoviev. Part 2 Can communist states reform?: the paradigm of the boots, Miklos Haraszti
- towards post-totalitarianism, Agnes Heller
- socialist democracy - a question of survival, Franz Loeser
- Castro's Cuba in the Gorbachev era, Carlos Alberto Montaner
- a future without communism?, Ivan Svitak
- reforms are possible, Doan Van Toai. Part 3 Unofficial movements: Poland - rebuilding social life, Jakub Karpinski
- the emerging civil society, Zagorka Golubovic
- Charter 77 and other independent movements, Jan Kavan
- dissent in Yugoslavia, Aleksa Djilas
- cultural resistance in Czechoslovakia, Jan Vladislav
- the Romanian-Hungarian conflict, Geza Szocs. Part 4 Intellectuals and the communist state: cooperation and conflict, Paul Hollander
- East bloc intellectuals, Antonin Liehm
- a view from Bucharest, Mihai Botez
- the Polish intellectual's anguish, Aleksander Smolar
- cultural dilemmas in contemporary Bulgaria, Atanas Slavov
- civilization vs anticivilization - to graduate or not, Dorin Tudoran
- bitter love - Chinese intellectuals and the state, Judith Shapiro
- dialectics of disenchantment, Vladimir Tismaneanu.
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