The end of the Communist revolution

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The end of the Communist revolution

Robert V. Daniels

Routledge, 1993

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415061490

Description

"The End of the Communist Revolution" puts "perestroika" firmly in its long-term historical perspective, as the final stage of a long revolutionary process, and within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Breshnevism. Daniels puts forward a new interpretation of the striking events in the latter half of the 20th-century which led to the downfall of Gorbachev and Communism in the late Soviet Union. Embracing the whole Soviet experience since 1917, he argues that Gorbachev's reforms did not constitute a new revolution, but a "moderate revolutionary revival" with a return to the decentralist, anti-imperial principles that inspired the original moderate phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Emphasizing continuity with the past, Daniels questions conventional solutions about future political and economic alternatives in the region. By stressing the way that reform unfolded, not just in the Breshnev era, but in the long historical background, Daniels provides an original and integrated interpretation of Soviet history.

Table of Contents

  • Perestroika I - Back to the Future
  • Perestroika II - Death on the Operating Table
  • Seeds of its Own Destruction
  • Was Stalinism Communist?
  • The Long Agony of the Russian Revolution
  • The End of the Revolutionary Empire
  • The End of the Communist Menace
  • Is There Socialism After Communism?.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415061506

Description

Daniels strives to put perestroika in its long-term historical perspective by placing it in a broad theory of revolutionary process, within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Brezshnevism.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Perestroika I
  • Chapter 3 Perestroika II
  • Chapter 4 Seeds of its Own Destruction
  • Chapter 5 Was Stalinism Communist?
  • Chapter 6 The Long Agony of the Russian Revolution
  • Chapter 7 The End of Revolutionary Empire
  • Chapter 8 The End of the Communist Menace
  • Chapter 9 Is there Socialism after Communism?

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