Political Ideas

SOCIALISM

Political Ideas

Socialism

Chapter Four: Socialism

Lecture Notes and Review Quiz Study Materials: Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism

Macridis and Hulliung lecture notes:

These provide the basis for the Review Quiz Answers,
In other words, good background information.
Lecture Notes-Marxism
Lecture Notes-Leninism and Stalinism

Please pay special attention to the following set of review quiz answers.
You should use as much as possible from this document in your papers and exams. Review Quiz Answers-Marxism-Leninism

The chart and table presented in class on Thursday, March 3, 2005
"Comparison of Ideologies Based on Their "building Bloc" Ideas"
"Development of Socialist Ideas"

News articles:

Khmer Rouge Soldiers Rue Revolution

Comintern Background

Good Old Uncle Joe

Betrayal of Socialism: This article from the "World Socialist Website" provides a good overview of how modern socialists believe that the Soviet Union did not represent socialism, but a corruption of it, and therefore socialism represents a viable political choice for moral reasons.

Printer Friendly Word DOC Format-- Betrayal of Socialism

How Latin America turned to the left This article provides an update on the growth of socialism in Latin America. It is important that we all keep informed about these changes, which reveal the continuing importance of socialist ideas.

Hugo Chavez Gets Hero's Welcome

Analysis-Fall of USSR

Eastern European Peace Movements

Putin-and-Andropov

Summaries of Academic Books and Articles on the Collapse of Communism

Beissinger--Nationalist Mobilization

Lapidus-Impact of Perestroika

Fish-Post-Communist-Democratization

Soviet Nationality Policy and Collapse

Federalism and Nationalism

Full text: Worker's Paradise Lost, by Eugene Lyons (New York: Paperback Library, 1967)

Political Ideas

SOCIALISM

Political Ideas


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