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ISBN-13: 9780674825482

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Features: Revised Edition

ISBN: 9780674825482

Publication Name: Soviet Bloc : Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Item Length: 9.2in

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Series: Russian Research Center Studies

Publication Year: 1967

Type: Textbook

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 1.5in

Author: Zbigniew K. Brzezinski

Item Width: 5.8in

Item Weight: 29.7 Oz

Number of Pages: 624 Pages

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This is the first full-length study of relations among the communist states. The study explores the implications of the status of Yugoslavia and China, the significance of the Hungarian revolution and the position of Poland in the Soviet bloc, and clarifies the Khrushchev-Gomulka clash of 1956 and the complex role of Tito. Zbigniew Brzezinski emphasizes the role of ideology and power in the relations among the communist states, contrasting bloc relations and the unifying role of Soviet power under Stalin with the present situation. He suggests that conflicts of interest among the ruling elites will result either in ideological disputes or in weakening the central core of the ideology, leading to a gradual decline of unity among the Communist states. The author, while on leave from his post as Professor and Director of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, and serving on the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Council, has revised and updated his important study and added three new chapters on more recent developments. He gives particular attention to the Sino-Soviet dispute.

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Publisher

Harvard University Press

ISBN-10

0674825489

ISBN-13

9780674825482

eBay Product ID (ePID)

1096872

Product Key Features

Author

Zbigniew K. Brzezinski

Publication Name

Soviet Bloc : Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Series

Russian Research Center Studies

Publication Year

1967

Type

Textbook

Number of Pages

624 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9.2in

Item Height

1.5in

Item Width

5.8in

Item Weight

29.7 Oz

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Enlarged Edition,Revised Edition

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This distinguished book analyzes the origins, evolution, and fragmentation of the once unified Communist world. Though the focus is still on relations between the Soviet Union and the East European countries, there is an expanded treatment of the Sino-Soviet dispute. With skill and insight, Brzezinski traces the transformation of the Soviet bloc into a more complicated alliance system, in which Moscow plays a leading, but no longer unchallenged, role. This is a masterful account of the interaction between ideology and power among the Communist states., Brzezinski's definitive work on the rise and dissolution of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe... is compellingly lucid, unfolds effortlessly, and remains happily unencumbered by ]argon. The first edition . . . was one of the significant pioneering efforts in systematizing the analysis of Communism in Eastern Europe, yet it had all the hallmarks of authorship by a profoundly political thinker. The present Revised and Enlarged Edition, more than ever, uses a political approach toward essentially political phenomena in a part of the world which traditionally thinks in political terms... reveals an encyclopaedic grasp of contemporary developments., An original and incisive analysis of the dynamics of leadership in the Communist camp and of the national factors that condition this leadership.

Table of Content

PART 1: THE FIRST PHASE: 1945-1947 The People's Democracy Institution and Ideological Diversity 1. The Political Background 2. Problems of Theory 3. Problems of Diversity PART 2: THE SECOND PHASE: 1947-1953 Stalinism Institutional and Ideological Uniformity 4. The Theory Reconsidered 5. Laying the Socialist Foundations 6. Stalinism: A Pattern for the Communist Interstate System 7. The Stalinist Legacy PART 3: THE THIRD PHASE: 1953-1956 From thaw to Deluge Institution and Ideological Diversity 8. The New Course: Stalinism Dissipated 9.The Impact of Yugoslavia 10. Hungary: The Test Case of National Communism 11. The Polish October: The Challenge of Domesticism PART 4: THE FOURTH PHASE: 1957-1959 The Communist "Commonwealth" Institutional Diversity and Ideological Uniformity 12. The Maoist effort to Reconstruct13. Unity Through the Struggle Against Revisionism 14. The Polish Way to Socialism 15. Divergent Unity PART 5: THE FIFTH PHASE: 1960-1965 Communist Pluralism Institutional and Ideological Diversity 16. the Sino-Soviet Conflict 17. Satellites into Junior Allies 18. The Soviet Alliance System 19. Ideology and Power in Relations among Communist states Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

1967

Topic

Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, General

Lccn

67-012531

Dewey Decimal

909.82

Intended Audience

Scholarly & Professional

Illustrated

Yes

Genre

History, Political Science

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