Comrades!: a history of world communism/
Robert Service
- London: Pluto Press, 2001.
- xviii, 571 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Origins to 1917 -- Communism before Marxism -- Marx and Engels -- Communism in Europe -- Russian variations -- The October revolution -- The first communist state -- Experiment : 1917-1929 -- European revolutions -- Communism and its discontents -- The communist international -- Probing America -- Making sense of communism -- The USSR in torment -- The Soviet model -- Development : 1929-1947 -- World strategy -- Stalinist ideology -- Inside the parties -- Friends and foes -- Communism in the World War -- Forcing the peace -- Reproduction : 1947-1957 -- The Cold War and the Soviet bloc -- The Yugoslav road -- Western Europe -- Warring propaganda -- The Chinese revolution -- Organising communism -- Against and for reform -- Mutation : 1957-1979 -- Detente and expansion -- China convulsed -- Revolutionary Cuba -- Communist order -- Rethinking communism -- Europe east and west -- Reduced expectations -- Last of the communist revolutions -- Endings : from 1980 -- Roads from communism -- Anti-communism in Eastern Europe -- China's capitalist communism -- Perestroika -- The comrades depart -- Accounting for communism.
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Communism Communist countries Social conditions Communication and culture Communism and culture