The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution

This magisterial study of international Communism presents the whole mighty drama of global socialism and Marxism: from its pre-Bolshevik origins through the establishment of a Communist empire over one third the world population to the shattering defeat of the Soviet state in 1991. A landmark work of history, exhaustively documented and narrated in a compelling style.

List of Maps

ix

Note on Dates and Transliterations

xi

Preface

xiii

The Ultimate Revolution (1789-1917)

1

(96)

Apocalypse Now

3

(5)

Karl Marx: The Revolution as Idol

8

(6)

The Paris Commune of 1871

14

(12)

Russian Terror

26

(30)

The Crucible of War

56

(15)

Lenin's Revolution

71

(26)

Lenin Rules (1917-1924)

97

(82)

The One-Party State

99

(23)

The World Revolutionary

122

(29)

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

151

(13)

Duel unto Death

164

(15)

Stalin Takes Over (1924-1929)

179

(42)

Stalin Emergent

181

(9)

China: The Revolution Fails, Mao Survives

190

(21)

Stalin Supreme

211

(10)

The Time of Stalin's Famine (1929-1934)

221

(30)

Farmer's Holocaust

223

(14)

Genocide in Ukraine

237

(6)

The Gulag Takes Form

243

(8)

The Time of Stalin's Purge (1934-1939)

251

(54)

The Purge with Yagoda

253

(8)

China: The Long March

261

(17)

Spain: The Rescue

278

(15)

The Purge with Yezhov

293

(12)

Communism in World War II (1939-1945)

305

(46)

Stalin's Pact with Hitler

307

(13)

Monsters Grapple

320

(7)

Positioning for Conquest

327

(24)

The Great Communist Conquests (1945-1950)

351

(58)

Atomic Bomb Secrets Betrayed

353

(7)

The Conquest of Eastern Europe

360

(19)

The Gulag at its Worst

379

(6)

The Conquest of China

385

(15)

The Defense of Korea

400

(9)

The Time of Stalin's Death (1950-1956)

409

(58)

Wolves around the Tiger

411

(7)

The Release and the Trap

418

(22)

The Despot Unveiled

440

(10)

A Rumor of Freedom

450

(17)

Mao, Khrushchev, and Castro (1956-1962)

467

(44)

Communism Was Real in China

469

(12)

Gambler in the Kremlin

481

(15)

The Upstart

496

(15)

The Time of Ho Chi Minh (1963-1969)

511

(78)

The Destruction of Ngo Dinh Diem

513

(15)

The Fall of Khrushchev

528

(5)

Mao's Last Revolution

533

(16)

America's Defeat in Vietnam

549

(40)

The Last Communist Surge (1969-1979)

589

(70)

Completion of the Conquest of Indo-China

591

(30)

The Rise and Fall of Allende in Chile

621

(7)

Communist Advance in Portugal and Africa

628

(20)

The Illusion of ``Detente''

648

(11)

The Victims Strike Back (1979-1987)

659

(50)

War to the Last Man in Afghanistan

661

(8)

The Freedom Fighters of Nicaragua

669

(10)

Solidarity in Poland and the Polish Pope

679

(15)

From Brezhnev to Gorbachev

694

(15)

The Fall of the Soviet Union (1987-1991)

709

(70)

Gorbachev Breaks the Chains

711

(13)

Blood on Tiananmen Square

724

(6)

Catholic Poland Shows the Way

730

(15)

The Red Flag Comes Down

745

(34)

Epilogue: Remnants and the Reason Why

779

(8)

Annotated Bibliography

787

(16)

Index

803

(29)

Photo and Map Credits

832

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