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Contents
Introduction: Why This Book?
Part I. Perspective, Methods, and Concepts
1. My Method
2. What is the Difference Between Capitalism and Socialism?
3. Morals and Politics
Part II. The History of Revolutions
4. The Communist Specter of 1848 54
5. The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
6. From Revolutionary France to German Reformism
7. The Establishment of the Second International
8. The Russian Revolution of 1917
9. The Attempt to Build Socialism Under Lenin
10. Europe-the Revolutions that Failed
11. The Third International: COMINTERN
12. Stalin: From the World Revolution to Socialism in One Country
13. The Chinese Revolution
14. The Third World on the Rise
15. The Cultural Revolution
16. USSR 1956-90: The End of “Actually Existing Socialism”
17. The Chinese Encounter with Neoliberal Globalization
18. Xi Jinping
Part III. The Transition to Socialism
19. Additional Historical Lessons
20. The End Game
Conclusion: Towards a Strategy for the Transition to Socialism
Appendix
Bibliography