Böcker av Robert V. Daniels

The final edition of a valuable reference work documenting the story of Communism from its beginnings to its amazing collapse.

Daniels strives to put "perestroika" in its long-term historical perspective by placing it in a broad theory of revolutionary process, within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Brezshnevism.

From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. This book is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval, from the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson to the "cultural revolution" in China and the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago.

This book examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. It springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its international relations can be understood only in light of the traumas and triumphs, privation and privileges that the country weathered under the tsars and the Soviets.