The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution,9780931888601

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution

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ISBN13: 9780931888601
ISBN10: 0931888603
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-11-01
Publisher(s): Christendom Pr
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Summary

This magisterial study of international Communism presents the whole mighty drama of global socialism and Marxism: from its pre-Bolshevik origins through the establishment of a Communist empire over one third the world population to the shattering defeat of the Soviet state in 1991. A landmark work of history, exhaustively documented and narrated in a compelling style.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
ix
Note on Dates and Transliterations xi
Preface xiii
The Ultimate Revolution (1789-1917)
1(96)
Apocalypse Now
3(5)
Karl Marx: The Revolution as Idol
8(6)
The Paris Commune of 1871
14(12)
Russian Terror
26(30)
The Crucible of War
56(15)
Lenin's Revolution
71(26)
Lenin Rules (1917-1924)
97(82)
The One-Party State
99(23)
The World Revolutionary
122(29)
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
151(13)
Duel unto Death
164(15)
Stalin Takes Over (1924-1929)
179(42)
Stalin Emergent
181(9)
China: The Revolution Fails, Mao Survives
190(21)
Stalin Supreme
211(10)
The Time of Stalin's Famine (1929-1934)
221(30)
Farmer's Holocaust
223(14)
Genocide in Ukraine
237(6)
The Gulag Takes Form
243(8)
The Time of Stalin's Purge (1934-1939)
251(54)
The Purge with Yagoda
253(8)
China: The Long March
261(17)
Spain: The Rescue
278(15)
The Purge with Yezhov
293(12)
Communism in World War II (1939-1945)
305(46)
Stalin's Pact with Hitler
307(13)
Monsters Grapple
320(7)
Positioning for Conquest
327(24)
The Great Communist Conquests (1945-1950)
351(58)
Atomic Bomb Secrets Betrayed
353(7)
The Conquest of Eastern Europe
360(19)
The Gulag at its Worst
379(6)
The Conquest of China
385(15)
The Defense of Korea
400(9)
The Time of Stalin's Death (1950-1956)
409(58)
Wolves around the Tiger
411(7)
The Release and the Trap
418(22)
The Despot Unveiled
440(10)
A Rumor of Freedom
450(17)
Mao, Khrushchev, and Castro (1956-1962)
467(44)
Communism Was Real in China
469(12)
Gambler in the Kremlin
481(15)
The Upstart
496(15)
The Time of Ho Chi Minh (1963-1969)
511(78)
The Destruction of Ngo Dinh Diem
513(15)
The Fall of Khrushchev
528(5)
Mao's Last Revolution
533(16)
America's Defeat in Vietnam
549(40)
The Last Communist Surge (1969-1979)
589(70)
Completion of the Conquest of Indo-China
591(30)
The Rise and Fall of Allende in Chile
621(7)
Communist Advance in Portugal and Africa
628(20)
The Illusion of ``Detente''
648(11)
The Victims Strike Back (1979-1987)
659(50)
War to the Last Man in Afghanistan
661(8)
The Freedom Fighters of Nicaragua
669(10)
Solidarity in Poland and the Polish Pope
679(15)
From Brezhnev to Gorbachev
694(15)
The Fall of the Soviet Union (1987-1991)
709(70)
Gorbachev Breaks the Chains
711(13)
Blood on Tiananmen Square
724(6)
Catholic Poland Shows the Way
730(15)
The Red Flag Comes Down
745(34)
Epilogue: Remnants and the Reason Why 779(8)
Annotated Bibliography 787(16)
Index 803(29)
Photo and Map Credits 832

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