The book offers a transnational perspective on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communist systems and focuses on different forms of resistance and ways of its remembering. The transnational look is manif…
"Hollywood's Blacklists is a history of the political and cultural factors relevant to understanding the why and the how of the various investigations of the alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood. What was HUAC? What propaganda role did films play during World War II and t…
"This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the party's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies, and, above all, its workers, and…
Introduction: Socialist revolution as a global process -- Asian axis: the PKI and the struggle for power in Sukarno's Indonesia -- Democratic communism: Allende's Chile and peaceful transition -- Tanzanian Ujamaa: building socialism in a communist world -- Lenin without Marx: co…
Looks at the influence of intellectuals who, although attracted to Communism, did not join the Communist Party and discusses the development of Communist regimes in China, Cuba, and North Vietnam.
