The intensive discussions of the so-called “China model” in academia and public policy
circles in recent years have focused mainly on China's economic development experience …

What alternatives are available to China in the next one or two decades?'More of the same'is
not a likely scenario, because one-party rule is not optimal for coping with the challenges of …

This chapter shows that both the tendency to institutionalize revolution as a recurrent
phenomenon due to the Utopian impulses of Communist ideology, and the necessity for the …

" Why has the Chinese Communist Party kept its grip on power while the former communist
states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have collapsed? And where is China …

If we analyse the first 15 years of Soviet Russia, we see three social experiments. The first
experiment, based on the equal distribution of poverty, suggests the “universal asceticism” …

Our taks--no small one at that--is to comprehend the relation between state and society in
socialism, not just as it is predicted in Marxist theory but as it has actually developed. It has …

China's post-1978 economic reform is generally acclaimed as success, for the Chinese
economy has expanded nine-fold in a matter of 25 years and the country rose from the …

In 1989, after 40 years in power, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is faced with its worst
crisis since the Cultural Revolution (1966–69) over the issue of reform of the Stalinist …

In the People's Republic of China (PRC), the monolithic organization of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) and its unchallenged official ideology, Mao Zedong Thought, used …