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- Sales Rank: #1336474 in Books
- Published on: 1989-03-08
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.84" h x 2.24" w x 7.05" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Analyzing Gorbachev's reforms, the former National Security Council director last year predicted communism's collapse in what PW called a "brisk polemic, an amalgam of wishful thinking and hardnosed analysis." In light of recent upheavals in Eastern Europe, however, readers will likely find the paperback reprint superfluous.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-- An enlightening summary of the events of the past and a likely prognosis of the future of monolithic communism. Divided into six parts, this well-documented, readable book describes Lenin's conspiracy of power to force a destruction of society by mass terrorism; consolidation of one-party rule behind a facade of intellectual and cultural openness; and the creation of a system that allowed Stalin to pulverize society and nurtured Brezhnev's party-boss corruption, economic backwardness, social stagnation, and the vested interests of totalitarian leaders. Brzezinski explores the dilemma of changes confronting Soviet leaders, and explains why he believes that communism will be unable to make these changes. He provides readers with some masterful insights into what has happened and what could happen. --Barbara Batty, Port Arthur
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Western analysts have long argued--and Kremlin leaders have recently acknowledged--that economic, political, and social stagnation threatens the viability of the Soviet state and the future of the Communist movement. Many writers, such as Ed Hewett in Reforming the Soviet Economy: Equality versus Efficiency ( LJ 4/15/88), have examined Soviet problems and the solutions proposed in "perestroika," without committing to any firm predictions. In this book, Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, looks at the history of Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism, current Soviet problems, and the state of the global Communist movement, and argues that Gorbachev's reforms cannot revitalize a system that is in inevitable decline. Timely, understandable, and highly recommended.
- James R. Kuhlman, Miami Univ. Lib., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A Necessary Historic Read
By Sunnye Tiedemann
Any serious student of world affairs should read -- even study -- this book. Brzezinski was director of the National Security Council during the Carter administration so few could write with more authority on the subject of communism in the 20th Century.
First he gives detailed background information on the unraveling of the Soviet empire. Beginning with Lenin's concentration of political control and the use of terror, Brzezinski traces Stalin's total consolidation of power through elimination of rivals and the subjugation of peasantry. Although interrupted by World War II, these tactics were revived in Eastern Europe during the postwar period. Stagnation set in, however, and the systme failed to deliver the promised social and economic improvements.
After Stalin's death, his repressive regime decayed to a corrupton-dominated state under Breshnev, interrupted only by abortive reform movements during Khrushchev's tenure. By the mid-1980s most top Soviet leaders accepted the need for renewal and began to debate how these reforms were to be accomplished.
Brzezinski details emerging unrest, beginning in Poland, and discusses China's "commercial" communism. The events he describes confirm the seriousness of the now often disclaimed Cold War threat and helps the reader to understand what happened, how it happened and what it all means to us today.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Strategic Thinker, Wonderful Book, Remarkable Prescient
By Scott A. Jones
What would you say if in 1989, 3 years into Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev's reign as General Secretary of the Communist Party and 3 years before the collapse of the USSR, a man wrote a book called "The Grand Failure, the Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century"? What if he got it right, and predicted most of the probable outcomes of the Yeltsin reforms through 2000? Brzezinski is that man - predicting the end of the USSR and the political / economic low point of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic long before it happened.
Brzezinski has a thoroughly entertaining history to start the book, explaining the appeal of Marxist/Leninism to the poor, the disenfranchised, the academic, and the war weary. He has a really cogent categorization of the three eras of Soviet politics, and how they differed from each other. Zbigniew also lays out a meaningful and understandable history of Marxism in China and why it was fundamentally different from the rest of the world Communist movement.
The meat of the book, though, is in explaining the emergent major trends in Central Europe and Russia, and in China in 1988 and 1989. Here he was dead on, and he and his staff seem to have read everything published in the USSR prior to Gorbachev and up to the publishing date of the book. Brzezinski predicts the fragmentation of the USSR, the huge nationalistic urges that took their toll on the Russian empire, the economic hardships, and the corruption. He laid out the likelihood of China becoming an economic free-zone under a hard core controlling political regime.
The only thing that ZB seems to have missed is the resurgence of Russia as the 7th largest economic power under the power of the petro-ruble. Further, he's a bit weak on economics while he's incredibly good at pragmatic, political savvy - George Keenan had nothing on ZB. The third quarter of the book is a bit redundant and pendantic as he displays how all the little republics went their own ways, with variations on hating Moscow and having resurgent national movements. He has an excellent index, uses footnotes and has six-seven pages of graphs to back up his assertions. This is no fly-by-night potboiler written by an ex-Congressman lobbyist - this is scholarly politics that should be used to build USA foreign policy. Brzezinski should be a first-round draft choice for the new White House, whether it is Republican or Democrat.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Prescient
By Seth J. Frantzman
Having written in 1989 that Communism would collapse this book is about 80% correct and terribly prescient. Russian bloc communism did collapse in 1990-1991. China has liberlaized its economy. Cuba and N. Korea remain the only outliers, soon to collapse. This book gives a quick tour de force fo this.
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