Myth, Manifesto, Meltdown: Communist Strategy, 1848-1991 - Couverture rigide

Collins, Edward M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275959384 ISBN 13 : 9780275959388

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

EDWARD M. COLLINS is former Deputy Director for Foreign Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency. His interest in strategy and decisionmaking arose during World War II service as a combat pilot and squadron leader, and continued in subsequent operational and military intelligence assignments and academic work.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275959384
• ISBN 13: 9780275959388
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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