The End of Communist Power: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis

by Leslie Holmes

Using an analytical, comparative approach that examines communist regimes from Moscow and Beijing to Havana and Kampuchea, Leslie Holmes argues that the extraordinarily rapid decline and collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992 had its roots in the anti-corruption campaigns introduced in the early 1980s. Originally created to combat the disastrous economic reforms of the 1960s and '70s, the anti-corruption campaigns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019521014X
• ISBN13: 9780195210149
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"