One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments (Hardcover)

Introduction:?Why a 20th Century Exercise in the 21st Century

Vladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber

Part One: Fantasies of Salvation

German Communism, the Jews and Israel: From the Antifascism of World War II to the Undeclared Wars of the Cold War

Jeffrey Herf

Euphoria to Decay: Post-Marxist Revision's Mortal Threat to Communism

Vladimir Tismaneanu

Getting off the Red Tram of Socialism

Mykola Riabchuk

The Rise, Demise, and Pernicious Long-Term Impact of Soviet Communist Ideology in Russia

Mark Kramer

Part Two: Economics

The Comparative Assessment of Communist and Post-Communist System Performance and Human Wellbeing: Challenges and Insights from In-depth Case Study Approaches

Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko

Communist Economy: The Verdict of History

Steven Rosefielde

Looking Back at the Soviet Economic Experience

Peter Rutland

Incentives, Coercion, and Redistribution: Why Industrial Central Plan Economies Performed Worse Than Western Market Economies and Better Than Less Developed Economies

Michael S. Bernstam

The Rise and Fall of the Planned Economy and Its Long-Lasting Effects on Transition

Serguey Braguinsky

Part Three: Politics

Romancing a Millenarian State: From Petrograd to Raqqa

Leon Aron

Stalin, Tito, Djilas, and the Dialectical Quarrels of Post-war Europe

Marius Stan

China's Enduring Leninist Toolkit: Perspectives on CCP Organization and Ideology

Margaret M. Pearson

Reductio ad Reganum: Reflections on Communism's Enduring Ideological Invulnerability

Venelin I. Ganev

Ideology and Violence in Communist Venezuela

Jordan Luber

Part Four: Society and Culture

Communist Rhetoric as Official Practices of Discourse: Making Epideictic Arguments on Authority and National Identity

Noemi Marin

Selective Repression and Democratic Opposition in Post-Totalitarian Hungary

Andras Bozoki

Lost in Protochronia: Ideological Dada in Ceauescu's Romania

Mircea Mih?ie

The Road to Liberation Theology: Experiments at the Intersection of Confessional & Secular Religion

Piotr H. Kosicki

Philosophical Lessons from the Bolshevik Experiment

Marci Shore



List of Contributors

Index