The Strange Death of Soviet Communism: A

"What took place in the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1991, in the eyes of its proponents, constituted a "great experiment" in the application of new modes of organization to social life, the largest such experiment in history. This book brings together leading scholars of Soviet history to show why the experiment failed and how it has destroyed the laboratory of Socialist utopias. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, Slavic studies specialists and sociologists."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction
Why Did It Happen?
The Modern Polybius	p. 3
The Modernizing Imperative: The USSR as an Ordinary Country	p. 9
Fortune and Fate	p. 21
Did the West Undo the East	p. 31
The Economic Fallacy	p. 45
The Nature of the Beast	p. 61
The Role of Popular Discontent	p. 77
Sins of the Scholars
1917 and the Revisionists	p. 91
A Fatal Logic	p. 109
Academe and the Soviet Myth	p. 125
The Pluralist Mirage	p. 137
Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortem	p. 151
Intellectuals and Communism
Did We Go Too Far?	p. 173
My Cold War	p. 183
Epilogue
The Arithmetic of Atrocity	p. 191
The Long Goodbye - And Eric's Consoling Lies	p. 199
Judging Nazism and Communism	p. 213
Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failed	p. 235
Index	p. 245
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