The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

672 Pages·2014·3.35 MB·English

by  S. A. Smith

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Edited by Stephen A. Smith
Print Publication Date: Jan Subject: History
2014
Online Publication Date: Dec
2013
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Contents
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List of Contributors
Introduction: Towards a Global History of Communism
Stephen A. Smith
Ideology
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Communism
Paresh Chattopadhyay
Lenin and Bolshevism
Lars T. Lih
Stalin and Stalinism
Kevin McDermott
Mao and Maoism
Timothy Cheek
Global Moments
1919
Jean­François Fayet and Stephen A. Smith
1936
Tim Rees
1956
Sergey Radchenko
1968
Maud Anne Bracke
1989
Matthias Middell
Global Communism
The Comintern
Alexander Vatlin and Stephen A. Smith
Communism in Eastern Europe
Pavel Kolář
Communism in China, 1900–2010
Yang Kuisong and Stephen A. Smith
Communism in South East Asia
Anna Belogurova
Communism in Latin America
Mike Gonzalez
Communism in the Islamic World
Anne Alexander
Communism in Africa
Allison Drew
Communist Polities and Economies
Political and Economic Relations between Communist States
Balázs Szalontai
Averting Armageddon: The Communist Peace Movement, 1948–1956
Geoffrey Roberts
The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
Daniel Leese
Communist Revolution and Political Terror
Julia C. Strauss
Popular Opinion Under Communist Regimes
Sheila Fitzpatrick
Communism and Economic Modernization
Mark Harrison
Collectivization and Famine
Felix Wemheuer
The Politics of Plenty: Consumerism in Communist Societies
Paul Betts
Communism and Social Relations
The Life of a Communist Militant
Marco Albeltaro and Stephen A. Smith
Rural Life
Jeremy Brown
Workers under Communism: Romance and Reality
Tuong Vu
Communism and Women
Donna Harsch
Privilege and Inequality in Communist Society
Donald Filtzer
Nation­Making and National Conflict under Communism
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Communism and Culture
Cultural Revolution
Richard King
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
Mark Gamsa
Popular Culture
Dean Vuletic
Religion under Communism
Richard Madsen
Sport Under Communism
Robert Edelman, Anke Hilbrenner, and Susan Brownell
End Matter
Index
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Edited by Stephen A. Smith
Print Publication Date: Jan Subject: History
2014
Online Publication Date: Dec
2013
(p. ix) List of Contributors
Marco Albeltaro is a research fellow in the Department of Culture, Politics, and
Society at the University of Turin. He has published La parentesi antifascista.
Giornali e giornalisti a Torino (1945–1948) (Turin: Seb27, 2011) and edited
L’assalto al cielo. Le ragioni del comunismo, oggi (Rome: La Città del Sole, 2010).
His next book will be a biography of Pietro Secchia.
Anne Alexander is a research fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge. She is author of Nasser
(Cairo: Haus/American University in Cairo Press, 2004) and ‘Brothers-in-Arms?
The Egyptian Military, the Ikhwan and the Revolutions of 1952 and 2011’, Journal
of North African Studies, 16.4 (2011), 533–54. She is currently writing a book on
the workers’ movement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, with Mostafa
Bassiouny.
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Anna Belogurova is a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore. Her research is on the Malayan Communist Party and Chinese
communism in Southeast Asia in a global perspective. She co-authored with K.
Tertitski, Taiwanskoe kommunisticheskoe dvizhenie i Komintern, 1924–1932
[Taiwanese Communist Movement and the Comintern] (Moscow: Vostok-Zapad,
2005) (also published in Chinese).
Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford
and a fellow of St Antony’s College. He is the author of several books and
numerous articles on various aspects of German cultural history. His most recent
book is Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2010). He is researching a book on changing ideas of
civilization in twentieth-century Europe.
Maud Anne Bracke is lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow. She works
on twentieth-century social, political, and cultural history of Europe; women’s
movements; 1968, specifically in Italy, France, and Czechoslovakia; and West
European communism during the Cold War.
Jeremy Brown is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at Simon Fraser
University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of City Versus
Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012).
Susan Brownell is a professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri–St
Louis. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order
of the People’s Republic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
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(p. x) Paresh Chattopadhyay is a professor of political economy at the University
of Quebec in Montreal. He is the author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the
Soviet Experience: Essay in the Critique of Political Economy (Westport: Praeger,
1994). He is currently writing Socialism and Commodity Production to be
published by Brill.
Timothy Cheek holds the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the University of
British Columbia. He has published extensively on China’s intellectuals and
Chinese Communist Party history. Current projects include contemporary Chinese
intellectuals and Chinese thought, the writings of Mao Zedong (Yan’an period),
and Chinese historiography.
Allison Drew is a professor in the Politics Department, University of York. Her
books include Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873–
1936 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007), Discordant Comrades: Identities and
Loyalties on the South African Left (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), and South Africa’s
Radical Tradition: A Documentary History (Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1997). She is
completing a manuscript entitled ‘We are No Longer in France: Communists in
Colonial Algeria’.
Robert Edelman is a professor of Russian history and the history of sport at the
University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Serious Fun: A History of
Spectator Sports in the USSR (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) and
Spartak Moscow: the People’s Team in the Workers’ State (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2009). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Sports History
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) and is currently writing a global history of
sport during the Cold War.
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Adrienne Lynn Edgar is an associate professor of Russian and Central Asian
history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Tribal
Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2004) and is working on a book about ethnic intermarriage in the Soviet
Union.
Jean-François Fayet teaches in the Department of History in the University of
Geneva. He has published extensively on the history of international communism
and is author of Karl Radek (1885–1939). Biographie politique (Berne: Lang,
2004).
Donald Filtzer is Professor of Russian History at the University of East London.
His most recent book is The Hazards of Urban Life in Late Stalinist Russia: Health,
Hygiene, and Living Standards, 1943–1953 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010). He is currently finishing a new project, ‘Health, Disease, and
Mortality on the Soviet Home Front During World War II’, funded by the Wellcome
Trust.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and Professor
Emerita of the University of Chicago. She is a historian of twentieth-century
Russia who has published extensively, mainly on Soviet social and cultural history
in the Stalin period, particularly social mobility, social identity, and everyday
practices.
Mark Gamsa is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University, with main research
interests in late imperial and modern Russian and Chinese history, as well as in
cultural, intellectual, and comparative history, historiography, and the history of
translation.
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