The Anatomy of Communist takeovers

Item details

ISBN: 0300017278
ISBN: 9780300017274
ISBN: 0300017995 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780300017991 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 664 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1975.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"First published as volume XI, number 4, 1971, of studies on the Soviet Union (new series)." Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. [649]-652.
Formatted Contents Note:	The history of communist takeovers / Thomas T. Hammond -- The Bolshevik Revolution: prototype or myth? / John Keep -- The Bolshevik conquest of the Moslem borderlands / Alexandre Bennigsen -- Soviet Russia and the Red Revolution of 1918 in Finland / C. Jay Smith -- Attempting a revolution from without: Poland in 1920 / Warren Lerner -- The communist takeover of Outer Mongolia: model for Eastern Europe? / Thomas T. Hammond -- The absorption of Tuva / Robert A. Rupen -- The takeover that remained in limbo: the German experience, 1918-1923 / Werner T. Angress -- The attempted revolution in China: the first Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1924-1927 / Gottfried-Karl Kindermann -- The annexation of the Baltic states / Edgar Tomson -- Stalin's policies towards Eastern Europe, 1939-1948: the general picture / Malcolm Mackintosh -- The Yugoslav Revolution: the first of a new type / Paul Shoup -- Ingredients of the communist takeover in Albania / Stephen Peters -- The Greek communists tried three times -and failed / D. George Kousoulas -- The communist takeover of Rumania: a function of Soviet power / Stephen Fischer-Galati -- A revolution administered: the Sovietization of Bulgaria / Nissan Oren -- The communist takeover in Poland / Susanne S. Lotarski -- The partition of Germany and the neutralization of Austria / Hans W. Schoenberg -- The first two communist takeovers of Hungary: 1919 and 1948 / Paul Ignotus -- The Prague Coup of 1948: the elegant takeover / Pavel Tigrid -- Finland in 1948: the lesson of a crisis / Kevin Devlin -- The autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan and the Kurdish People's Republic: their rise and fall / Rouhollah K. Ramazani -- A preconceived formula for Sovietization: the communist takeover of North Korea / Dae-sook Suh -- Vietnam: from Bolshevism to people's war / Dennis J. Duncanson -- The model for revolutionary people's war: the communist takeover of China / Jürgen Domes -- The wages of ambiguity" the 1965 coup in Indonesia, its origins and meaning / Justus M. Van der Kroef -- Guatemala: an aborted communist takeover / Ronald M. Schneider -- Radicalization of a Latin-American state: the establishment of communism in Cuba / Boris Goldenberg -- The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / Andrew Gyorgy -- The Prague spring and the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia / William E. Griffith -- The sources of communist political power in Kerala / Gerald Heeger -- A summing up / Thomas T. Hammond.
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