TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pons,Silvio
AU  - Service,Robert
AU  - Epstein,Mark
AU  - Townsend,Charles
TI  - A dictionary of 20th-century communism
SN  - 9780691135854
U1  - 335.4090403 21E
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Communism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - English
N1  - Index; Trad. de:  "Dizionario del comunismo nel xx secolo"; Notes bibliogr
N2  - The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former communist states, scholars have found new material that has expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an ideological and political force. The book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the enormous role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond.  It examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of communism around the globe, and features contributions from an international team of 160 scholars. It includes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as: Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, Gorbachev ; Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, Sandinista Revolution ; Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality, labor ;Organizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer Rouge ; Related topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism, anticommunism, McCarthyism
ER  -