Walls

Copyright © 1991-1998 Charles L. Mack, Jr. Books
TABLE OF CONTENTS [Linked Chapters Available Online]

 

   I.  ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! . . . except the power to leave    1

 

             Cuba    4

             East Germany   7

             Hungary   7

             Czechoslovakia   7

 

 

  II.  A QUESTION OF MOTIVES   10

 

             The Communist Universe   ?

             Secrecy   19

 

 

 III.  THE PRISONERS OF PARADISE   24

 

             The Imprisoned Minority   25

             Catch-22   41

 

 

  IV.  THE 19th CENTURY : TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY   45

 

             Renaissance   46b

             Industrial Revolution   47

             The Productive Solution   51

             Paradise Lost   52

             The Distributive Solution   57

 

 

   V.  ENVY : THE ETERNAL SIBLINGS   62

 

             Fugitives From Envy   70

 

 

  VI.  A QUESTION OF VALUES   76

 

             The Child Marx   78

             Child of Marx   83

             Justice:  or the Zero-Sum Game   85

             Class Struggle:  or the Grab-it-for-Us Game   86

             The Planetary Civil War   89

 

 

 VII.  LENIN AND THE REVOLUTIONARY TWO-STEP   91

 

             One:  Ë Nous La LibertŽ   94

             Two:  The New Economic Policy   101

VIII.  STALIN AND THE MANDATE OF ENVY   106

 

             The Rise of Rural Envy   110

             Rise of Stalin   115

             Massacre of the Kulaks   116

             The Trauma of Progress   122

 

 

  IX.  DIE UNERSETZLICHEN   128

 

             The Twelve Percent   136

             The Eighty-one Percent   141

             The Seven Percent   145

 

 

   X.  THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT : THE WALLS GO UP   148

 

             Massacre of the Spetsy   150

             Pillage of the NEPmen   154

             Dictatorship of the Proletariat   158

             Mobilization of the Proletariat   167

             The Stakhanovite Movement   179

             The Walls Go Up   184

 

 

  XI.  THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR : TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH   189

 

             Purge Fever   192

             Hitler Wins His War   204

             The Rostov Transformation   211

             Renaissance Dementia   214

             Allied Victory   216

             War's End   220

             A Military NEP   224

             The People's Scapegoat   236

 

 

 XII.  NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV AND THE NEW-CLASS ARCHIPELAGO   242

 

             New-Class Archipelago   249

             The Collective Economy   255

             Sunspots   258

             Central Planning   266

             The Layer Cake of Envy   286

             Death and Rebirth of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat   292

 

XIII.  MAO AND THE MANDATE OF ENVY   304

 

             Follow the Leader   311

             ---- In the Countryside   312

             ---- In the Cities   324

             Envy Revolts   327

             Liu and Mao   331

             The Janus Ploy   340

             The Great Leap   343

 

 

 XIV.  COMMUNISM SPLITS : IN CHINA AND THE WORLD   356

 

             Mao's Challenge   359

             Counterattack of the Modernists   362

             Modernity Defeats the Mandate   373

             Russia's Feet of Clay   378

             China's NEP   383

             Assault on the Second World   386

 

 

  XV.  THE RISE AND FALL OF MAO'S MANDATE   392

 

             Assault on the Third World   394

             Counterattack of the Nuclear Age   399

             Samson Pulls Down the Temple   403

             The Revolting Culture of Envy   407

             Mao Think   414

             Ho Chi Minh Betrays Mao   416

             Mao Becomes a Puppet   421

             China Finds its Way   424

 

 

 XVI.  BREZHNEV AND KOSYGIN TINKER WITH THE MANDATE   432

 

             The 1965 Reforms   434

             Solidarity at Shchekino   438

             Kremlin Capitalism   443

             Soviet Political Progress   448

             The Limits of Progress   457

             Troubles Ahead   466

             The Spring Compressed   467

             Oil on the Waters   470

 

XVII.  COMMUNISM FACES THE FUTURE   488

 

             The Domino Effect of Oil   489

             The Empire   499

             Czechoslovakia   502

             Poland   515

             The Burdens of Empire   522

             Cuba   531

             Albania   542

             Cambodia   542

             North Korea   547

             North Vietnam   547

             The Boat People   548a

             In League With the Future   549

 

 

XVIII. THE WEST FACES THE FUTURE   558

 

             Hidden Strength   569

             Western Economic Justice   573

             Proposal For a Divided Economy   587

             Selective Propaganda   590

 

 

 XIX.  THE WEST FACES COMMUNISM   592

 

             The Soviet Empire   600

             Human Rights   604

             Eurocommunism   622

             An Alternative to War   631

             Fomenting Russian Revolution   642

             Risks   651

             Caution or Cowardice   658

 

 

  XX.  THE COST OF FREEDOM   660

 

 

 

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