Author: Hugh Seton-Watson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 178720510X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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This comparative analysis of various communist movements across the globe from eminent British historian and political scientist, Hugh Seton-Watson, delves deeply into the social and political states of countries where communists attempted to seize—and successfully seized—power. The author of many of the mid-20th century’s standard works on Russian and Eastern European history, Seton-Watson’s 1953 study carefully follows the sequence of communist revolution: from the Marxist-Leninist seizure of power in Russia during WWI and its consolidation under Lenin; the rise and horrors of Stalinism in the late 20s, 30s and 40s; the birth of the Comintern and popular front in the inter-war period; the communist inspired/directed resistance movements of the war years; through to the Stalinisation of Eastern Europe in the wake of WWII; the rise and triumph of Mao in China; communist triumphs in Korea and Southeast Asia; and the role of Marxist-Leninist and Stalinist thought in the nationalist/anti-colonialist movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the early-mid-20th century. An unmissable addition to your collection! “Both the subject and the literature of communism are vast. Communism is a theory, which professes to explain philosophy, religion, history, economics and society. Communism is a vocation, whose devotees accept its discipline in every part of their private and professional lives. Communism is a science of conspiracy, a technique of wrecking and subversion. Communism is a revolutionary movement, a political force which operates in a social environment, which recruits its members from various classes of society, and marshals its armies against various political opponents.”—Hugh Seton-Watson, Introduction
Author: HUGH. SETON-WATSON
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ISBN: 9781033663325
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Hugh Seton-Watson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266848752
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Excerpt from From Lenin to Malenkov: The History of World Communism Russian Socialism, 22 - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, 24 - Bourgeois and Socialist Revolutions, 26 - From March to November, SO - The Constituent Assembly, 36 - The Civil War, 38 - Causes of Bolshevik Victory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: George Hugh Nicholas Seton-Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 377
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Author: Hugh Seton-Watson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429711751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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This book is intended to be both less and more than a survey of communism in the world today or a history of communist movements. It focuses on the relationship of communist movements to social classes and to the internal balance of political power in their respective countries.
Author: Robert V. Daniels
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.
Author: Hugh Seton-Watson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013707230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Robert Service
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674046993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day, offering vivid portraits of its protagonists and decisive events. Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries.
Author: Robert Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.
Author: Kevin McDermott
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The recently opened archives of the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow provide fuel for the explanations of how the Comintern degenerated into an instrument of Soviet foreign policy after its revolutionary internationalist inception.
