The Strange Death of Soviet Communism

The collapse of communism marked the close of an era of world history

Nikolas K. Gvosdev

1: Why Did It Happen?; 1: The Modern Polybius; 2: The Modernizing Imperative: The USSR as an Ordinary Country; 3: Fortune and Fate; 4: Did the West Undo the East?; 5: The Economic Fallacy; 6: The Nature of the Beast; 7: The Role of Popular Discontent; 2: Sins of the Scholars; 8: 1917 and the Revisionists; 9: A Fatal Logic; 10: Academe and the Soviet Myth; 11: The Pluralist Mirage; 12: Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortem; 3: Intellectuals and Communism; 13: Did We Go Too Far?; 14: My Cold War; 4: Epilogue; 15: The Arithmetic of Atrocity; 16: The Long Goodbye-And Eric's Consoling Lies; 17: Judging Nazism and Communism; 18: Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failed