The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

Draws on documentation released since the fall of the Soviet Union to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century.

The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this 'Handbook', written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, 'The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism' is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution.

this collection offers the reader the opportunity to see the global nuances of Communism, the marked similarities of experience of those living in states adhering to fundamental Marxist-Leninist doctrine and the far less easy to understand spaces between.

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S. A. Smith is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. He was a graduate student at Moscow State University and Peking University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and taught for many years at the University of Essex. More recently, he was professor of comparative history at the European University Institute, Florence. He has written extensively on the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, and is currently writing a book which compares the efforts of the Soviet and Chinese Communist regimes to eliminate 'superstition' from daily life, in areas such as popular religion, calendrical and life-cycle rituals, agriculture, and folk medicine, and which explores how sections of the populace engaged the regimes through 'politics of the supernatural'.



Inhalt
Towards a Global History of Communism
PART I: IDEOLOGY
1: Paresh Chattopadhyay: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Communism
2: Lars T. Lih: Lenin and Bolshevism
3: Kevin McDermott: Stalin and Stalinism
4: Timothy Cheek: Mao and Maoism
PART 2: GLOBAL MOMENTS
5: Jean-François Fayet: 1919
6: Tim Rees: 1936
7: Sergei Radchenko: 1956
8: Maud Anne Bracke: 1968
9: Matthias Middell: 1989
PART 3: GLOBAL COMMUNISM
10: Alexander Vatlin and S. A. Smith: The Comintern
11: Pavel Kolár: Communism in Eastern, Central, and South-Eastern Europe
12: Yang Kuisong and S. A. Smith: Communism in China
13: Anna Belogurova: Communism in Southeast Asia
14: Mike Gonzalez: Communism in Latin America
15: Anne Alexander: Communism in the Islamic World
16: Allison Drew: Communism in Africa
PART 4: COMMUNIST POLITIES AND ECONOMIES
17: Balázs Szalontai: Political and Economic Relations between Communist States
18: Geoff Roberts: Communism and the Peace Movement
19: Daniel Leese: Rituals of Power
20: Julia Strauss: Communism and Political Terror
21: Sheila Fitzpatrick: Popular Opinion under Communist Regimes
22: Mark Harrison: Communism and Economic Modernization
23: Felix Wemheuer: Collectivization and Famine
24: Paul Betts: Consumption in Communist Societies
PART 5: COMMUNISM AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
25: Marco Albeltaro: The Life of a Communist Militant
26: Jeremy Brown: Rural Lives in Communist Societies
27: Tuong Vu: Industrial Work in Communist Societies
28: Donna Harsch: Women in Communist Societies
29: Don Filtzer: Privilege and Inequality in Communist Societies
30: Adrienne Lynn Edgar: Nation-Building and National Conflict in Communist Societies
PART 6: COMMUNISM AND CULTURE
31: Richard King: Socialist Cultural Production
32: Mark Gamsa: Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
33: Dean Vuletic: Communism and Popular Culture
34: Richard Madsen: Communism and Religion
35: Robert Edelman, Anke Hilbrenner, and Susan Brownell: Communism and Sport

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