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The everything guide to understanding socialism : the political, social, and economic concepts behind this complex theory / Pamela D. Toler.
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- ISBN: 9781440512773
- ISBN: 1440512779
- Physical Description: xii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 283) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Socialism's beginnings -- The industrial revolution and the new proletariat -- The first socialist revolution -- The paradox of free market socialism -- Practical utopias -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The Paris Commune of 1871 -- Anarchism and socialism -- Social democracy -- Syndicalism -- The emergence of communist Russia -- British socialism takes a different path -- Socialism in America, part I : socialism of the working class -- Fascism and socialism -- Communism in China -- The creation of welfare socialism -- Socialism in developing nations -- Socialism in America, part II : the socialism of compassion -- Socialism in crisis -- Socialism after the collapse of the Soviet Union -- "It didn't happen here". |
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| Subject: | Socialism > History. Communism > History. |
