The Cambridge History of Communism

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

Juliane Fürst (Edited by), Silvio Pons (Edited by), Mark Selden (Edited by)

9781316501597, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 April 2020

660 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 3.3 cm, 1.14 kg

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 Fürst, 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 Fürst 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 André 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.

Subject Areas: The Cold War [HBTW], Asian history [HBJF], European history [HBJD], History [HB]