Dynamics of Communism in Eastern Europe (eBook)

Richard Voyles Burks (Autor)

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2015
278 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7722-5 (ISBN)

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Who are the people comprising the Communist movement in Eastern Europe? What is their motivation in joining the party? In a comparative analysis of the eight East European Communist parties—Polish, Czech, Magyar, Romanian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav, Greek, and Albanian—R. V. Burks offers precise knowledge about Communism's adherents. The author conducted interviews with repentant Communists held in Greek prisons, with exiled members of the anti-Communist opposition, and with active members of the party; he also made a critical analysis of election returns and of original sources in a dozen languages. The-result is a wealth of specific information on the participants’ age, sex, education, professional training, social class, and ethnic origin. Basing his comparisons and conclusions on this data, Mr. Burks is able to point to some interesting discoveries: social class (at least as Marxism conceives of it) is hardly a factor in drawing these people to Communism, and the industrial worker is not the backbone of the movement. Instead, the effects of cross-cultural education, shifting world prices, and what might he called ethnic politics have directed these people to Communism. Mr. Burks has provided a close analysis of the anatomy of Communism in a crucial part of the world.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alexander Kerensky • Alexander Papagos • Anschluss • Anti-Communism • apparatchik • Balkan Federation • Before the Revolution • Bled agreement (1938) • Bloc of National Minorities • bolsheviks • Bourgeoisie • Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic • Capitalism • Central Committee • class conflict • class warfare • Collectivization in the Soviet Union • Cominform • Committee of Union and Progress • communism • Communisme • Communist International • Communist Party • Communist Party of Greece • Communist Party of Poland • Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Confiscation • czechoslovakia • Dictatorship • dictatorship of the proletariat • Eastern Bloc • Eastern Europe • Eastern Ukraine • Espionage • Fatherland Front (Austria) • federal union • Fellow traveller • Front organization • Gestapo • Greek civil war • Greek war of independence • Imre Nagy • Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization • Interwar Period • Josip Broz Tito • Marxian economics • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • mensheviks • middle class • Miron Constantinescu • Nazi Party • Nazism • New Course • Nikita Khrushchev • October Revolution • peasant • Policy • politburo • Political commissar • Political Party • Politics • Polonization • power politics • Premier of the Soviet Union • proletarianization • Resistance during World War II • Revisionism (Marxism) • right-wing politics • Russian culture • Russian Revolution • russians • Russification • Ruthenia • Second World • secret police • Security Battalions • Serbs • Serfdom in Russia • Slavery • Slavs • socialist federal republic of yugoslavia • Socialist Republic of Romania • Soviet Union • Stalinism • The Communist Manifesto • Treaty of Varkiza • ukrainian soviet socialist republic • Unemployment • Unequal treaty • Ustaše • Vasile Luca • warfare • World Communism • World revolution • World War I • World War II • Yugoslavia • Yugoslav Partisans • Yugoslav Wars
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7722-9 / 1400877229
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7722-5 / 9781400877225