The Cambridge History of Communism

The Cambridge History of Communism

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetration. Beneath the surface, profound political, social, economic and cultural changes were occurring in the socialist and former socialist countries, resulting in the collapse and transformations of the existing socialist order and the changing parameters of world Marxism. This volume draws on innovative research to bring together history from above and below, including social, cultural, gender, and transnational history to transcend the old separation between Communist studies and the broader field of contemporary history.

Introduction Juliane Furst, Silvio Pons and Mark Selden; 1. The Global 1968 and international communism Robert Gildea; 2. The Vietnam War as a world event Sophie Quinn-Judge and Marilyn Young; 3. The Soviet Union and the global Cold War Artemy Kalinovsky; 4. Marxist revolutions and regimes in Latin America and Africa in the 1970s Piero Gleijeses; 5. The aging pioneer: late Soviet Socialist society, its challenges and challengers Juliane Furst and Stephen Bittner; 6. Communist propaganda and media in the era of the Cold War Stephen Lovell; 7. The zones of late Socialist literature Polly Jones; 8. Visualizing the Socialist public sphere Reuben Fowkes; 9. The decline of Soviet-type economies Andre Steiner; 10. Reform Communism Silvio Pons and Michele Di Donato; 11. Cambodia: detonator of communism's implosion Ben Kiernan; 12. Make some get rich first. State consumerism and private enterprise in the creation of postsocialist China Karl Gerth; 13. Gorbachev's reforms and the Soviet crisis Mark Kramer; 14. Communism and religion Stephen A. Smith; 15. Human rights and communism Mark Bradley; 16. Feminism, communism, and global Socialism, 1968-1995: encounters and entanglements Celia Donert; 17. The communist and post-socialist gender order in China and Russia Marko Dumancic; 18. Communism and environment Douglas Weiner; 19. Europe's '1989' in global context James Mark and Tobias Rupprecht; 20. The collapse of the Soviet Union Vladislav Zubok; 21. Thirty years after: the end of European communism in historical perspective Charles Maier; 22. Communism and nationalism in the Soviet Union and Russia Nikolai Mitrokhin; 23. China's human development after Socialism Carl Riskin; 24. China's post-Socialist transformation and global resurgence: political economy and geopolitics Mark Selden and Ho fung Hung; 25. Legacies of communism. Comparative remarks Jan Behrends; 26. Cultural memories of communism Jan Plamper; Index.

Explores the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe, the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of China.