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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455408603321

Autore

Pei Minxin

Titolo

From reform to revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the demise of communism in China and the Soviet Union / / Minxin Pei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-674-04197-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264p. ) : ill

Disciplina

321.920947

Soggetti

Communism - China

Communism - Soviet Union

Mass media - China

Mass media - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

China Economic conditions 1976-2000

Soviet Union Economic conditions 1985-1991

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction Regime Transition in Communist States Explaining the Tocqueville Paradox China's Capitalist Revolution The Private Sector under Perestroika The Self-Liberalization of China's Mass Media The Liberal Takeover of the Soviet Mass Media under Glasnost Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive effort to compare the recent political experiences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China by tracing their overlapping and diverging paths of regime change.