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Debates on the future of communism

edited byVladimir Tismaneanu Judith Shapiro

Abstract

A collection of essays analyzing the future of communism in the light of contemporary reforms. A number of critical intellectuals who have personally experienced the communist system, present a number of analyses ranging from the optimistic to the foreboding.

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Communism's strength

democracy's weakness

Ferenc Fehér

pp.3-9

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_1

Sources of strength and stress

pp.10-18

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_2

From paralysis to self-destruction Carlos Franqui

pp.19-22

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_3

Sandinismo and war

dynamics of militarism in revolutionary Nicaragua

Humberto Belli

pp.23-33

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_4

A dangerous civilization Eduard Kuznetsov

pp.34-37

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_5

Crocodiles cannot fly Alexander Zinoviev

pp.38-41

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_6

The paradigm of the boots Miklós Haraszti

pp.45-49

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_7

Toward post-totalitarianism Agnes Heller

pp.50-55

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_8

Socialist democracy

a question of survival

Franz Loeser

pp.56-61

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_9

Castro's Cuba in the Gorbachev era

pp.62-69

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_10

A future without communism Ivan Sviták

pp.70-82

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_11

Reforms are possible Doan Van Toai

pp.83-90

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_12

Poland

rebuilding social life

Jakub Karpinski

pp.93-105

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_13

The emerging civil society Zagorka Golubovic

pp.106-115

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_14

Charter 77 and other independent movements Jan Kavan

pp.116-128

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_15

Dissent in Yugoslavia Aleksa Djilas

pp.129-134

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_16

Cultural resistance

parallel literature in Czechoslovakia

Jan Vladislav

pp.135-141

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_17

Ethnic dissent in Eastern Europe

the Romanian—Hungarian conflict

Geza Szöcs

pp.142-147

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_18

Cooperation and conflict Paul Hollander

pp.151-164

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_19

East bloc intellectuals Antonin Liehm

pp.165-169

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_20

A view from Bucharest Mihai Botez

pp.170-181

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_21

The anguish and joy of the Polish intellectual Aleksander Smolar

pp.182-188

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_22

Cultural dilemmas in contemporary Bulgaria Atanas Slavov

pp.189-193

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_23

Civilization versus anti-civilization

to graduate or not

Dorin Tudoran

pp.194-200

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_24

Bitter love

Chinese intellectuals and the state

Judith Shapiro

pp.201-206

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_25

Dialectics of disenchantment Vladimir Tismaneanu

pp.207-217

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_26

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1991

Pages: 222

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-11785-7

ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-11783-3

Full citation:

Tismaneanu Vladimir, Shapiro Judith (1991) Debates on the future of communism. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.