The End Of Communist Power

Examines the origins of the collapse of communist power in the late twentieth century.

The collapse of communist power may well be seen by future historians as the most significant event of the late twentieth century. In this book, Holmes considers official corruption and campaigns against it, seeing these as symptomatic of a legitimation crisis that developed following the failure of the economic reforms of the 1960s and 1970s. He analyses the nature of the accelerating legitimation …