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Problems of Communism Archives
Problems of Communism • 38 Years, 197 Issues, 2,290 Articles, 16,969pp
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Asian Communism in the Crucible
In the Spirit of the Red Banteng, by Antonie C.A. Dake
Problems of Communism, January 1975, pp. 55-60
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    Issues of the 1950s = 5 Years, 26 Issues, 264 Articles
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      Issues of 1955 = 2 Issues, 15 Articles
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        Issues of 1956 = 6 Issues, 65 Articles
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          Issues of 1957 = 6 Issues, 65 Articles
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              Issues of 1959 = 6 Issues, 64 Articles
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              Issues of the 1960s = 10 Years, 52 Issues, 729 Articles
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                    Issues of 1962 = 6 Issues, 67 Articles
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                      Issues of 1963 = 6 Issues, 71 Articles
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                        Issues of 1964 = 5 Issues, 66 Articles
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                                  Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 55 Issues, 659 Articles
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                                    Issues of 1970 = 6 Issues, 99 Articles
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                                      Issues of 1971 = 5 Issues, 86 Articles
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                                        Issues of 1972 = 6 Issues, 78 Articles
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                                          Issues of 1973 = 5 Issues, 53 Articles
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                                            Issues of 1974 = 6 Issues, 68 Articles
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                                              Issues of 1975 = 6 Issues, 65 Articles
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                                                January 1975 Issue = 13 Articles
                                                1. "National Liberation" in Southern Africa by Colin Legum, pp. 1-20
                                                2. SALT and the Soviet Military by Raymond L. Garthoff, pp. 21-37
                                                3. [+]
                                                  The Dubchek Era Revisited by Radoslav Selucky, pp. 38-42 - 5 Reviews
                                                  1. Rowboat to Prague by Alan Levy
                                                  2. Political Grouping in the Czechoslovak Reform Movement by Vladimir V. Kusin
                                                  3. Czechoslovakia: The Party and the People by Andrew Oxley, Alex Pravda, and Andrew Ritchie
                                                  4. Dubcek by William Shawcross
                                                  5. Prague Spring by Z.A.B. Zeman
                                                4. [+]
                                                  Stalinism and Freedom by Frederick C. Barghoorn, pp. 43-47 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. Bride of the Revolution by Robert H. McNeal
                                                  2. Soviet Economists of the Twenties by Naum Jasny
                                                  3. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution by Stephen F. Cohen
                                                5. [+]
                                                  Through a Glass Sharply by Abraham Brumberg, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. The Green Stick by Malcolm Muggeridge
                                                  2. The Infernal Grove by Malcolm Muggeridge
                                                6. [+]
                                                  Systemic Ills in Soviet Agriculture by Arthur W. Wright, pp. 51-54 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. Russian Peasant Organisation Before Collectivisation by D.J. Male
                                                  2. Soviet Agricultural Trade Unions, 1917-1970 by Peter J. Potichnyj
                                                  3. The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture by Karl-Eugen Wadekin and G.F. Karcz
                                                7. [+]
                                                  Asian Communism in the Crucible by Justus M. van der Kroef, pp. 55-60 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. In the Spirit of the Red Banteng by Antonie C.A. Dake
                                                  2. The Huks by Eduardo Lachica
                                                  3. Communism in Japan by Paul F. Langer
                                                8. [+]
                                                  Peking's Profile in Southeast Asia by Lea E. Williams, pp. 61-62 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. China and Southeast Asia--the Politics of Survival by Melvin Gurtov
                                                  2. China and the Overseas Chinese by Stephen A. Fitzgerald
                                                9. [+]
                                                  Mobilizing the Chinese Masses by William L. Parish, Jr., pp. 63-66 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. Communications and National Integration in Communist China by Alan P.L. Liu
                                                  2. Small Groups and Political Rituals in China by Martin King Whyte
                                                10. [+]
                                                  Views of the Latin American Left by Benedict Cross, pp. 67-71 - 4 Reviews
                                                  1. Conflict and Political Change in Venezuela by Daniel H. Levine
                                                  2. Uruguay's Tupamaros by Arturo C. Porzecanski
                                                  3. The Tupamaro Guerillas by Maria Esther Gilio
                                                  4. The Latin American Revolution by Donald C. Hodges
                                                11. Some Perspectives on Chinese Politics, pp. 72-77
                                                12. Correspondence, pp. 78-80
                                                13. Cover Photo by Gerard Klijn
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                                                March 1975 Issue = 10 Articles
                                                1. Succession Contingencies in the Soviet Union by Grey Hodnett, pp. 1-21
                                                2. The Shifting Sands of Arab Communism by John K. Cooley, pp. 22-42
                                                3. Spanish Communism in the 1970's by Eusebio M. Mujal-Leon, pp. 43-55
                                                4. Moscow and Bangladesh by Bhabani Sen Gupta, pp. 56-68
                                                5. [+]
                                                  Soviet Influence in the Middle East by Arnold Hottinger, pp. 69-73 - 6 Reviews
                                                  1. Soviet-Middle East Relations by Charles B. McLane
                                                  2. The Soviet Union and the Arab East Under Khrushchev by Oles M. Smolansky
                                                  3. Soviet Advances in the Middle East by George Lenczowski
                                                  4. The USSR and the Arabs by Jaan Pennar
                                                  5. Arab Politics in the Soviet Mirror by Aryeh Yodfat
                                                  6. The USSR and the Middle East by Michael Confino and Shimon Shamir
                                                6. [+]
                                                  From Vision to Hindsight by Luigi Valsalice, pp. 74-76 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. Cold Winter, Cold War by Robert G. Kaiser
                                                  2. Caging the Bear by Charles Gati
                                                  3. Soviet Strategy for the 1970s by Foy D. Kohler
                                                7. [+]
                                                  Moscow and Detente by Matthew P. Gallagher, pp. 77-79 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. The Soviet Union and the October 1973 Middle East War by Foy D. Kohler, Leon Goure, and Mose L. Harvey
                                                  2. The Role of Nuclear Forces in Current Soviet Strategy by Leon Goure, Foy D. Kohler, and Mose L. Harvey
                                                8. [+]
                                                  The Perennial "National Question" by Walker Connor, pp. 80-85 - 4 Reviews
                                                  1. The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia by Edward Allworth
                                                  2. The Consolidation of the South China Frontier by George V.H. Moseley, III
                                                  3. Belorussia Under Soviet Rule, 1917-1957 by Ivan S. Lubachko
                                                  4. The Slovak Dilemma by Eugen Steiner
                                                9. The "Dnepropetrovtsy" as Young Men by John A. Armstrong, pp. 86-89
                                                10. Cover Photo by Ferenc Vigovszki
                                              3. [+]
                                                May 1975 Issue = 10 Articles
                                                1. The Internal Political Scene by Kenneth Lieberthal, pp. 1-10
                                                2. The New Constitution by Chun-tu Hsueh, pp. 11-19
                                                3. Patterns of Nordic Communism by Trond Gilberg, pp. 20-35
                                                4. [+]
                                                  Communist States and International Law by John N. Hazard, pp. 36-42 - 5 Reviews
                                                  1. International Law and the Revolutionary State by Richard J. Erickson
                                                  2. Law in Chinese Foreign Policy by Shao-Chuan Leng and Hungdah Chiu
                                                  3. People's China and International Law by Jerome Alan Cohen and Hungdah Chiu
                                                  4. Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation by Milan Sahovic
                                                  5. Theory of International Law by G.I. Tunkin
                                                5. [+]
                                                  The KGB's Broadening Horizons by Harry Rositzke, pp. 43-45 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. KGB by John Barron
                                                  2. The Deception Game by Ladislav Bittman
                                                6. An Intracontinental Forum? by Alfred Erich Senn, pp. 46-47
                                                7. [+]
                                                  Regional Development: Planners' Dilemma by Roland Schonfeld, pp. 48-50 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. Regional Development Strategy in Southeast Europe by George W. Hoffman
                                                  2. Regional Development by Kosta Mihailovic
                                                8. [+]
                                                  Yugoslav Market Socialism by Stephen R. Sacks, pp. 51-54 - 5 Reviews
                                                  1. Economic Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia by Rudolf Bicanic
                                                  2. Industrial Democracy: Yugoslavia Style by Ichak Adizes
                                                  3. Business Cycles in Yugoslavia by Branko Horvat
                                                  4. Yugoslav Workers' Selfmanagement by M.J. Broekmeyer
                                                  5. Foreign Investment in Yugoslavia by Miodrag Sukijasovic
                                                9. [+]
                                                  Assessing the Chinese Economy by K.C. Yeh, pp. 55-62 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. An Economic Profile of Mainland China
                                                  2. Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China, 1919-1972 by Christopher Howe
                                                  3. The Political Economy of the Chinese Revolution by Eric Axilrod
                                                10. Correspondence, pp. 63-65
                                              4. [+]
                                                July 1975 Issue = 11 Articles
                                                1. The Rise of Portugal's Communists by Arnold Hottinger, pp. 1-17
                                                2. The Interparty Drama by Kevin Devlin, pp. 18-34
                                                3. North Vietnam Since Ho by David W.P. Elliott, pp. 35-52
                                                4. Communist Strategy in Laos by Arthur J. Dommen, pp. 53-66
                                                5. Catholic Social Thought in Communist Poland by Adam Bromke, pp. 67-71
                                                6. [+]
                                                  Communism in Bulgaria by Joseph Rothschild, pp. 72-74 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. Bulgarian Communism by Nissan Oren
                                                  2. Revolution Administered by Nissan Oren
                                                  3. Bulgarian Economic Development Since World War II by Bogoslav Dobrin
                                                7. [+]
                                                  Public Opinion in Eastern Europe by Peter Grothe, pp. 75-77 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. Public Opinion Polling in Czechoslovakia, 1968-1969 by Jaroslaw A. Piekalkiewicz
                                                  2. Opinion-Making Elites in Yugoslavia by Allen Barton, Bogdan Denitch, and Charles Kadushin, ...
                                                8. [+]
                                                  Sino-American Trade Prospects by Robert F. Dernberger, pp. 78-83 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. China's Trade with the West by Arthur A. Stahnke
                                                  2. The China Trade and U.S. Tariffs by Harry A. Cahill
                                                  3. Doing Business with China by William W. Whitson
                                                9. [+]
                                                  The Soviet Economy by Alan Abouchar, pp. 84-86 - 4 Reviews
                                                  1. Soviet Economic Statistics by Vladimir Treml and John P. Hardt
                                                  2. Soviet Wages by Leonard Joel Kirsch
                                                  3. Planning Problems in the USSR by Michael Ellman
                                                  4. Reformists and Traditionalists by Jan Ake Dellenbrant
                                                10. Correspondence, pp. 87-89
                                                11. Cover Photo by Jean Guyaux
                                              5. [+]
                                                September 1975 Issue = 11 Articles
                                                1. The Warsaw Pact by Lawrence T. Caldwell, pp. 1-19
                                                2. Generations and Politics in the USSR by Walter D. Connor, pp. 20-31
                                                3. Modernization and Baltic Nationalism by V. Stanley Vardys, pp. 32-48
                                                4. China's Quest for a Socialist Solution by June Teufel Dreyer, pp. 49-62
                                                5. [+]
                                                  Windows on the Soviet Military by John Erickson, pp. 63-66 - 4 Reviews
                                                  1. The Offensive by A.A. Sidorenko
                                                  2. Marxism-Leninism on War and Army by B. Byely and Y. Dzyuba
                                                  3. Scientific-technical Progress and the Revolution in Military Affairs by N.A. Lomov
                                                  4. The Basic Principles of Operational Art and Tactics by V. Ye. Savkin
                                                6. [+]
                                                  The Soviet Colossus under Scrutiny by Frank K. Roberts, pp. 67-70 - 1 Review
                                                  1. The Soviet Union: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Foy D. Kohler and Mose L. Harvey
                                                7. [+]
                                                  Bureaucrat in the Kremlin by Jiri Valenta, pp. 71-73 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. Brezhnev: The Masks of Power by John Dornberg
                                                  2. Leonid Breschnew by Michael Morozow
                                                8. [+]
                                                  Profiles of Political Persecution by Jane P. Shapiro, pp. 74-78 - 6 Reviews
                                                  1. Alexander Dolgun's Story by Patrick Watson and Alexander Dolgun
                                                  2. Magadan by Michel Solomon
                                                  3. Nothing But the Truth by Joseph Berger
                                                  4. Volunteers for the Gallows by Bela Szasz
                                                  5. In the Name of Tomorrow by Nina Karsov and Szymon Szechter
                                                  6. A Question of Madness by Zhores A. Medvedev and Roy A. Medvedev
                                                9. [+]
                                                  Maoist Strategies of Revolution and Development by Michael Y.M. Kau, pp. 79-82 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. China, the Struggle for Power, 1917-1972 by Richard C. Thornton
                                                  2. The Internal Politics of China, 1949-1972 by Jurgen Domes
                                                  3. The Politics of Chinese Communism by Ilpyong J. Kim
                                                10. [+]
                                                  Patterns of Chinese Growth by Christopher Howe, pp. 83-86 - 3 Reviews
                                                  1. Capital Formation in Mainland China, 1952-1965 by Kang Chao
                                                  2. The Machine-Building Industry in Communist China by Chu-Yuan Cheng
                                                  3. Development of China's Steel Industry and Soviet Technical Aid by M. Gardner Clark
                                                11. Correspondence, pp. 87-89
                                              6. [+]
                                                November 1975 Issue = 10 Articles
                                                1. The PLA in Internal Politics by Ellis Joffe, pp. 1-12
                                                2. Use of the PLA in Foreign Affairs by Angus M. Fraser, pp. 13-25
                                                3. Messages from Czechoslovakia by Jan F. Triska, pp. 26-42
                                                4. [+]
                                                  "World Communism" in Fragments by Neil McInnes, pp. 43-45 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. World Strength of the Communist Party Organizations, 1973
                                                  2. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, 1976 by Richard F. Staar
                                                5. [+]
                                                  The Soviet Model and Its Prospects by Melvin Croan, pp. 46-48 - 4 Reviews
                                                  1. The Russian Tradition by Tibor Szamuely
                                                  2. Soviet Politics and Society in the 1970's by Henry W. Morton and Rudolf L. Tokes
                                                  3. The Politics of Modernization in Eastern Europe by Charles Gati
                                                  4. German Politics Under Soviet Occupation by Henry Krisch
                                                6. [+]
                                                  The Historian and the Kremlin by Sidney I. Ploss, pp. 49-50 - 1 Review
                                                  1. Politics and History in the Soviet Union by Nancy Whittier Heer
                                                7. [+]
                                                  The Maoist Ideology by Louis A. Barth, pp. 51-56 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. History and Will by Frederic Wakeman Jr.#2
                                                  2. Ideology and Politics in Contemporary China by Chalmers Johnson
                                                8. [+]
                                                  Indonesia's "Gestapu Affair" by Guy J. Pauker, pp. 57-60 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. Indonesian Communism Under Sukarno by Rex Mortimer
                                                  2. The Devious Dalang by Rahadi S. Karni
                                                9. [+]
                                                  The Outlook for Eastern Europe by Samuel L. Sharp, pp. 61-64 - 2 Reviews
                                                  1. The Future of Inter-Bloc Relations in Europe by Louis J. Mensonides and James A. Kuhlman
                                                  2. East European Perspectives on European Security and Cooperation by Robert R. King and Robert W. Dean
                                                10. Index to Volume XXIV, pp. 65-69
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                                              Issues of 1976 = 5 Issues, 55 Articles
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                                                Issues of 1977 = 5 Issues, 49 Articles
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                                                  Issues of 1978 = 6 Issues, 54 Articles
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                                                    Issues of 1979 = 5 Issues, 52 Articles
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                                                    Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 51 Issues, 461 Articles
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                                                      Issues of 1980 = 6 Issues, 60 Articles
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                                                        Issues of 1981 = 4 Issues, 35 Articles
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                                                          Issues of 1982 = 6 Issues, 59 Articles
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                                                            Issues of 1983 = 4 Issues, 42 Articles
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                                                              Issues of 1984 = 6 Issues, 56 Articles
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                                                                Issues of 1985 = 3 Issues, 31 Articles
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                                                                  Issues of 1986 = 6 Issues, 52 Articles
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                                                                    Issues of 1987 = 6 Issues, 47 Articles
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                                                                      Issues of 1988 = 5 Issues, 33 Articles
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                                                                        Issues of 1989 = 5 Issues, 46 Articles
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                                                                        Issues of the 1990s = 3 Years, 13 Issues, 177 Articles
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                                                                          Issues of 1990 = 6 Issues, 65 Articles
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                                                                            Issues of 1991 = 4 Issues, 46 Articles
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                                                                              Issues of 1992 = 3 Issues, 66 Articles