The Rise and Demise of World Communism

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. General Patterns in World Communism; Chapter 1. What did Communist Regimes Have in Common?; Chapter 2. How did Communist Regimes Differ from Each Other?; Chapter 3. The World Communist Movement: From Moscow-Centric to Pluralistic; Part II. Ideology and Organization: The Heritage; Chapter 4. Marxism: The Vision; Chapter 5. Leninism: The Instrument; Part III. Coming to Power and Building Socialism in Russia; Chapter 6. The Bolshevik Seizure of Power; Chapter 7. Consolidating Bolshevik Power; Chapter 8. Respite; Chapter 9. Building Socialism: Stalin's Revolution from Above, 1928-1934; Chapter 10. The Great Terror and Stalinist Despotism; Chapter 11. Was Stalinism a Logical Continuation of Marxism-Leninism?; Chapter 12. Was Stalin's Revolution from Above a Rational Strategy of Modernization?; Chapter 13. Stalinism and World Communism in the 1930s; Chapter 14. The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union and World Communism; Part IV. The Stalinist Model Spreads Westward and Eastward; Chapter 15. The Creation of East European Communist States; Chapter 16. Origins and Entrenchment of the Cold War; Chapter 17. World War II and the Creation of Asian Communist States: The People's Republic of China; Chapter 18. Consolidating Power and Building Socialism in China; Chapter 19. Communist Parties Come to Power in Korea and Vietnam; Part V. After Stalin: From Similarity to Difference; Chapter 20. What Follows Stalinism in the USSR?; Chapter 21. Diversity and Defiance Within the World Communist Movement; Chapter 22. Building Communism: Competition for Ideological Correctness Within the World Communist Movement; Chapter 23. The Sino-Soviet Schism, 1957-1963; Chapter 24. Cuba's Indigenous Revolution, 1959-70; Chapter 25. The Soviet Union After Khrushchev: Bureaucratic Leninism; Chapter 26. Alternatives to Utopia in China, 1960-1965; Chapter 27. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969; Chapter 28. Maoism: An Accounting; Part VI.

George W. Breslauer is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He advanced through the ranks to full professor of political science, was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Division of Social Sciences in 1997, and was appointed Chancellor's Professor in 1998 for exceptional distinction in research, teaching, and service to the university. He served UC Berkeley as dean of social sciences (1999-2006) and as executive vice chancellor and provost (2006-2014). In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Breslauer is the author or editor of 12 books on Soviet and Russian politics and foreign relations.