One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Why a 20th Century Exercise in the 21st Century (Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber) -- PART ONE: FANTASIES OF SALVATION -- German Communism, the Jews, and Israel: From the Antifascism of World War II to the Undeclared Wars of the Cold War (Jeffrey Herf) -- Euphoria to Decay: Post-Marxist Revision's Mortal Threat to Communism (Vladimir Tismaneanu) -- Getting off the Red Tram of Socialism (Mykola Riabchuk) -- The Rise, Demise, and Pernicious Long-Term Impact of Soviet Communist Ideology in Russia (Mark Kramer) -- PART TWO: ECONOMICS -- The Comparative Assessment of Communist and Post-Communist System Performance and Human Wellbeing: Challenges and Insights from In-depth Case Study Approaches (Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko) -- Communist Economy: The Verdict of History (Steven Rosefielde) -- Looking Back at the Soviet Economic Experience (Peter Rutland) -- Incentives, Coercion, and Redistribution: Why Industrial Central Plan Economies Performed Worse Than Western Market Economies and Better Than Less Developed Economies (Michael S. Bernstam) -- The Rise and Fall of the Planned Economy and Its Long-Lasting Effects on Transition (Serguey Braguinsky) -- PART THREE: POLITICS -- Romancing a Millenarian State: From Petrograd to Raqqa (Leon Aron) -- Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the Dialectical Quarrels of Post-war Europe (Marius Stan) -- China's Enduring Leninist Toolkit: Perspectives on CCP Organization and Ideology (Margaret M. Pearson) -- Reductio ad Reaganum: Reflections on Communism's Enduring Ideological Invulnerability (Venelin I. Ganev) -- Ideology and Violence in Communist Venezuela (Jordan Luber) -- PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND CULTURE. Communist Rhetoric as Official Practices of Discourse: Making Epideictic Arguments on Authority and National Identity (Noemi Marin) -- Selective Repression and Democratic Opposition in Post-Totalitarian Hungary (Andr�as Boz�oki) -- Lost in Protochronia: Ideological Dada in Ceaușescu's Romania (Mircea Mihăieș9 -- The Road to Liberation Theology: Experiments at the Intersection of Confessional and Secular Religion (Piotr H. Kosicki) -- Philosophical Lessons from the Bolshevik Experiment (Marci Shore) -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back cover.