Political Science : Communism & Socialism

Daniels puts Perestoika firmly in its long-term historical perspective by placing it in a broad theory of revolutionary process, within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Breshnevism. more...

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This title examines the role of the Europeans in the Cold War during the 'Khrushchev Era' (1953-65). It was a period marked by the struggle for a regulated co-existence in a world of blocs, an initial arrangement to find a temporary arrangement failed due to German desires to quickly overcome the status quo. It was only when the danger of an unintended nuclear war was demonstrated through the crises over Berlin and Cuba that a tacit arrangement became possible, which was based on a system dominated by a nuclear arms race. The book provides useful information on the role of Konrad Adenauer and the beginnings of the German 'new Eastern policy', as well as examining the Western European power policy in the era of Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. more...

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In post-totalitarian Russia, the ideological climate has been gravitating more and more towards right-wing conservative values coloured by Russian nationalism. Taken as a whole, the more or less rightist attitudes in society include both moderate and pragmatic views as well as ideas of extreme nationalism. The latter include fascism and national socialism. In late 1996, Grigorii Yavlinsky1 concluded that ‘a major opportunity was emerging for the spread of national socialism in Russia’ (Parland 1997, 12). more...

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Landy reassesses Antonio Gramsci's politics in light of contemporary Marxist critiques of mass culture, examining the relationship among politics, culture, and history in his work. “The best study written thus far in English on culture and politics from a Gramscian perspective; it contains the most perspicacious treatment and intelligent critical analysis of Gramsci's views.” —Joseph A. Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame more...

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The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance together atop the Berlin Wall? Why did people who had once seemed resigned to their fate suddenly take their future into their own hands? Some analysts have explained the Revolution in economic terms, arguing that the Warsaw Pact countries could no longer compete with the West. But as George Weigel argues in this thought-provoking volume, people don't put their lives, and their children's futures, in harm's way simply for better cars, refrigerators, and TVs. Something else--something more--had to happen behind the iron curtain before the Wall came tumbling down. In The Final Revolution, Weigel argues that that "something" was a revolution of conscience. The human turn to the good, to the truly human, and, ultimately, to God, was the key to the political Revolution of 1989. Weigel provides an in-depth exploration of how the Catholic Church shaped the moral revolution inside the political revolution. Drawing on extensive interviews with key leaders of the human rights and resistance movements, he opens a unique window into the soul of the Revolution and into the hearts and minds of those who shaped this stirring vindication of the human spirit. Weigel also examines the central role played by Pope John Paul II in confronting what Vaclav Havel called communism's "culture of the lie," and he suggests what the future role of the Church might be in consolidating democracy in the countries of the old Warsaw Pact. The "final revolution" is not the end of history, Weigel concludes. It is the human quest for a freedom that truly satisfies the deepest yearnings of the human heart. The Final Revolution illustrates how that quest changed the face of the twentieth century and redefined world more...

Price: $34.00