The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684190346 ISBN 13: 9780684190341

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989

Synopsis

Argues that communism as it currently exists can no longer thrive in the Soviet Union and chronicles the dramatic changes that will need to take place in order to assure the Soviet Union's political future

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Text: English, Romanian

From Library Journal:

Western analysts have long argued--and Kremlin leaders have recently acknowledged--that economic, political, and social stagnation threatens the viability of the Soviet state and the future of the Communist movement. Many writers, such as Ed Hewett in Reforming the Soviet Economy: Equality versus Efficiency ( LJ 4/15/88), have examined Soviet problems and the solutions proposed in "perestroika," without committing to any firm predictions. In this book, Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, looks at the history of Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism, current Soviet problems, and the state of the global Communist movement, and argues that Gorbachev's reforms cannot revitalize a system that is in inevitable decline. Timely, understandable, and highly recommended.
- James R. Kuhlman, Miami Univ. Lib., Oxford, Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0684190346
• ISBN 13: 9780684190341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224