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Debates on the future of communism

edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Judith Shapiro

(A Foreign Policy Research Institute book)

Macmillan, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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  • NCID
    BA12971135
  • ISBN
    • 0333531884
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 222 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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