The Rise and Demise of World Communism, Hardcover/George W. Breslauer

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A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China, had the world\'s largest population. At communism\'s high point, its adherents envisioned global triumph. Today, however, only five communist regimes remain in power. Why? In The Rise and Demise of World Communism , George Breslauer, a specialist who has spent decades observing the evolution of communist states, provides a sweeping history of the world communist movement, focusing in particular on what communist states shared in common and why they began to differ from each other over time. Throughout, Breslauer explores the relations among communist states as well as the relations between those states and the world of increasingly affluent, and militarily formidable, democratic-capitalist powers. He finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that valued revolutionary violence as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx\'s vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin\'s conception of party organization. As Breslauer shows, all these regimes went on to build socialism according to a Stalinist template and were initially dedicated to anti-imperialist struggle as members of a world communist movement. But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement and eventually led to the collapse of European communism. Even though a few communist regimes still remain in power, the dream of world communism is dead. But the future of the remaining communist regimes is uncertain. An accessible history of one of the most important political phenomena of the past 150 years, The Rise and Demise of World Communism provides readers with a crisp account of the entire movement--from the theories of Marx and Lenin to the on-the-ground policies of Stalin, Mao, Gorbachev, Deng, and other communist leaders-that culminates in our own era. About author(s): George W. Breslauer is a specialist on Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. He advanced through the ranks to full professor of political science, was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Division of Social Sciences in 1997, and was appointed Chancellor\'s Professor in 1998 for exceptional distinction in research, teaching, and service to the university. He served UC Berkeley as dean of social sciences (1999-2006) and as executive vice chancellor and provost (2006-2014). In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Breslauer is the author or editor of 12 books on Soviet and Russian politics and foreign relations.