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One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments
Why has communism's humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin's coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. 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.
This 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.
About the Authors
Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park), President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (April 2006–March 2007), and since April 2007, Chairman of the Presidential Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania.
Jordan Luber—Erasmus Student, Charles University Vaclav Havel Master's consortium; University of Maryland, College Park, High Honors. Experience in civil society and government in Central and Eastern Europe. Interest in 21st century totalitarianism, the social view of fascism and Communism, ideology, and Latin America.
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Other Titles by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Ideological Storms
Remembrance, History, and Justice
The End and the Beginning
Other Titles in POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy
The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes
Pakistan's Political Parties
Other Titles in Marxism & Communism
Reassessing Communism
Red Modernism
Quest for a Suitable Past