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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
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 Libert
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
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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