The past decade has witnessed attempts, generated initially from within the centers of
power, to reform communist rule in both China and the Soviet Union. The apparent outcome …

Faced with an overall crisis in China since the early 20th century, the Communist Party of
China has pursued a Party-centric path to modernising the country, thus delivering its …

After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states
remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela can …

China's post-Mao transition has been marked by the steady transformation of the Chinese
Communist Party from a revolutionary elite oriented toward utopian goals to a technocratic …

One of the major issues of concern in contemporary China as well as in the international
community is the direction and manner in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will …

'A lively and well written comparison of economic transformation in China and the
USSR/Russia, combining a good knowledge of the Chinese economy with a radical critique …

Major wars and economic crises force the pace of change within and between capitalist
states, giving rise to new alignments and shifts in the geopolitics of world capitalism. At the …

Maoism, Titoism and Stalinism are shorthand terms for the three broad notions which have
legitimated the policies of the socialist transition in the People's Republic of China. This …

This chapter provides a framework for understanding the historical and social background of
the three crises, and the remarkable adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to …