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Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Why a 20th Century Exercise in the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eVladimir Tismaneanu and Jordan Luber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Fantasies of Salvation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGerman Communism, the Jews and Israel: From the Antifascism of World War II to the Undeclared Wars of the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eJeffrey Herf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuphoria to Decay: Post-Marxist Revision’s Mortal Threat to Communism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eVladimir Tismaneanu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting off the Red Tram of Socialism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMykola Riabchuk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise, Demise, and Pernicious Long-Term Impact of Soviet Communist Ideology in Russia\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMark Kramer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Economics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Comparative Assessment of Communist and Post-Communist System Performance and Human Wellbeing: Challenges and Insights from In-depth Case Study Approaches\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePaul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunist Economy: The Verdict of History\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSteven Rosefielde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking Back at the Soviet Economic Experience\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePeter Rutland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncentives, Coercion, and Redistribution: Why Industrial Central Plan Economies Performed Worse Than Western Market Economies and Better Than Less Developed Economies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMichael S. Bernstam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Planned Economy and Its Long-Lasting Effects on Transition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSerguey Braguinsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three: Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomancing a Millenarian State: From Petrograd to Raqqa\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eLeon Aron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStalin, Tito, Djilas, and the Dialectical Quarrels of Post-war Europe\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMarius Stan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChina’s Enduring Leninist Toolkit: Perspectives on CCP Organization and Ideology\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMargaret M. Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReductio ad Reganum\u003c\/em\u003e: Reflections on Communism’s Enduring Ideological Invulnerability\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eVenelin I. Ganev\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeology and Violence in Communist Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eJordan Luber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Four: Society and Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunist Rhetoric as Official Practices of Discourse: Making Epideictic Arguments on Authority and National Identity\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eNoemi Marin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelective Repression and Democratic Opposition in Post-Totalitarian Hungary\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eAndrás Bozóki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLost in Protochronia: Ideological Dada in Ceaușescu’s Romania\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMircea Mihăieș\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Road to Liberation Theology: Experiments at the Intersection of Confessional \u0026amp; Secular Religion\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePiotr H. Kosicki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophical Lessons from the Bolshevik Experiment\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMarci Shore\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047191544151,"sku":"9789633864050","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789633864050.jpg?v=1750970614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/one-hundred-years-of-communist-experiments-9789633864050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}