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Overview
Collins traces Communist strategy in the so-called Cold War from its ideological roots, through its successes, to the systeM's collapse. He demonstrates that Communist ideology made the Cold War inevitable, shaped Communist strategy and the resultant structure and purpose of Communist states, and assured that Soviet and other Communist states and party strategies would be subsets of a larger Communist world strategy. Collins challenges American perception and conduct of the Cold War as essentially a conflict between Great Powers in a bipolar world, demonstrating that it was in fact a real war, with its objective to create a Communist world.
He illuminates the central role of internal strategy conflicts in fractionating the Communist world, and the direct linkage between the failure of Communist world strategy and the systeM's collapse. This is a major synthesis that will be of interest to scholars and researchers of international Communism and security issues as well as lay readers.
Synopsis
A comprehensive examination of the origins and outcome of the "Cold War," showing how Marxist-Leninist ideology made the war inevitable.
Booknews
This book examines the motivations for world Communist strategy, its objectives and methods, its ideological roots, and its ultimate failure. It studies Lenin's and Stalin's role in 20th-century history, the strategy of the Soviet Union in WWII, Khrushchev's Grand Strategy, the military strategy of Communist countries in the period 1964-1989, and the ideological, political, and economic decline of Communism culminating in the Gorbachev administration and the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.