Debates on the future of communism

Author(s)

• Tismaneanu, Vladimir
• Shapiro, Judith
• Foreign Policy Research Institute

Bibliographic Information

Debates on the future of communism

edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Judith Shapiro

（A Foreign Policy Research Institute book）

Macmillan, 1991

Note

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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Details

• 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
• Classification:
  • LCC : HX73
  • DC20 : 335.43
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communism -- 1945-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1297126X