Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 46 No. 2 2008
Book Reviews
Abstract
Steven Nafziger of Williams College reviews “Comrades! A History of World Communism” by Robert Service,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the history of communism throughout the world. Discusses communism before Marxism; Marx and Engels; communism in Europe; Russian variations; the October Revolution; the first communist state; European revolutions; communism and its discontents; the communist international; probing America; making sense of communism; the USSR in torment; the Soviet model; world strategy; Stalinist ideology; inside the parties; friends and foes; communism in the World War; forcing the peace; the cold war and the Soviet Bloc; the Yugoslav road; Western Europe; warring propaganda; the Chinese revolution; organizing communism; against and for reform; detente and expansion; China convulsed; revolutionary Cuba; communist order; rethinking communism; Europe east and west; reduced expectations; the last of the communist revolutions; roads from communism; anticommunism in Eastern Europe; China's capitalist communism; perestroika; the comrades' departure; and accounting for communism. Service is a fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Russian History at Oxford University. Select bibliography; index.”
- DOI
- 10.1257/jel.46.2.412.r16
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 446-448
- Language
- en
- Sources
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