Change in Communist Systems

Johnson, Chalmers (editor)

ISBN 10: 0804707235 / ISBN 13: 9780804707237

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1970

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No dj, ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition), overall a clean used first edition! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 368 historical pages! "According to one of the latest samples of Poland's most endearing exports ---- jokes about Communist societies ---- a high-ranking Soviet dialectician recently addressed an assembly of Marxist-Leninist theoreticians in Warsaw. There he reported the most up-to-the-minute discovery of Moscow's hard-working social scientists: 'Only the future is certain; the past is always changing." ---- from the Preface. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Change in Communist Systems
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804707235
• ISBN 13: 9780804707237
• Binding: Green Cloth
• Edition: First Edition / First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Ex-Library
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Synopsis

There are different essays by different authors for instance: Comparing Communist Nations by Chalmers Johnson, Development vs. Utopia in Communist Policy by Richard Lowenthal, Types of Communist Economic Systems by John Michael Montias, Power and Authority in Eastern Europe by Zvi Y. Gitelman, etc.