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For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and for communism generally. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces of 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces on 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. In this book, A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings.Taking readers from the drafting of The Communist Manifesto in the 1840s to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, McAdams describes the decisive role played by individual rulers in the success of their respective parties-men like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro. He demonstrates how these personalities drew on vying conceptions of the party's functions to mesmerize their followers, mobilize their populations, and transform their societies. He also shows how many of these figures abused these ideas to justify incomprehensible acts of inhumanity. McAdams explains why communist parties lasted as long as they did, and why they either disappeared or ceased to be meaningful institutions by the close of the twentieth century.The first comprehensive political history of the communist party, Vanguard of the Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

Communism --- History. --- Activism. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Capitalism. --- Central Committee. --- Chairman. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- China. --- Class conflict. --- Collective leadership. --- Cominform. --- Communism. --- Communist International. --- Communist Party USA. --- Communist Party of China. --- Communist Party of Germany. --- Communist Party of the Russian Federation. --- Communist Party of the Soviet Union. --- Communist party. --- Communist state. --- Comrade. --- Counter-revolutionary. --- Criticism. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Czechoslovakia. --- Democracy. --- Democratic centralism. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- Despotism. --- Dictatorship of the proletariat. --- Dictatorship. --- Employment. --- Erich Honecker. --- Failed state. --- French Communist Party. --- Governance. --- Government. --- Grigory Zinoviev. --- Ideology. --- Imperialism. --- Institution. --- Insurrectionary anarchism. --- Joseph Stalin. --- Josip Broz Tito. --- Kuomintang. --- Labor unrest. --- Left-wing politics. --- Leninism. --- Leon Trotsky. --- Leonid Brezhnev. --- Liu Shaoqi. --- Majority. --- Manifesto. --- Mao Zedong. --- Maoism. --- Marxism. --- Marxism–Leninism. --- Mass mobilization. --- Mikhail Gorbachev. --- Nationalization. --- New Course. --- New Economic Policy. --- Nikita Khrushchev. --- Nikolai Bukharin. --- Paris Commune. --- Party discipline. --- Party leader. --- Politburo. --- Political party. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Pretext. --- Proclamation. --- Proletarian revolution. --- Protest. --- Rebellion. --- Reformism. --- Regime. --- Representative democracy. --- Revolution. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Self-determination. --- Social democracy. --- Socialist state. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet people. --- Stalinism. --- Strike action. --- Supporter. --- The Communist Manifesto. --- Trade union. --- Unintended consequences. --- Vanguardism. --- Voting. --- War. --- Working class. --- Yugoslavia. --- Zhou Enlai.