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100 1 _aHolmes, Leslie.
245 1 4 _aThe end of Communist power :
_banti-corruption campaigns and legitimation crisis /
_cLeslie Holmes.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c1993.
300 _a358 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
490 1 _aEurope and the international order
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index.
505 0 _aTheoretical framework -- Towards a definition of taxonomy of corruption -- Examples of corruption -- Patterns of corruption and its reporting in the USSR and the PRC -- Reasons for corruption -- The function and dysfunctions of corruption and its reporting -- The authorities' reactions to corruption.
520 _aUsing an analytical, comparative approach that examines communist regimes from Moscow and Beijing to Havana and Kampuchea, Leslie Holmes argues that the extraordinarily rapid decline and collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992 had its roots in the anti-corruption campaigns introduced in the early 1980s. Originally created to combat the disastrous economic reforms of the 1960s and '70s, the anti-corruption campaigns could not meet citizen expectations, and ultimately had the unintended effect of provoking a legitimation crisis throughout the communist world. Holmes studies this crisis in detail, investigating campaigns against official corruption in more than twenty communist states, with particular emphasis on the former USSR and the People's Republic of China. In a final chapter, Holmes locates the failure of communist power in the larger debate about the crisis of modernity, and argues--controversially--that the collapse of communism is not necessarily of much relevance to this alleged crisis.
650 0 _aCommunist state.
650 0 _aPolitical corruption
_zCommunist countries.
650 0 _aPost-communism.
650 7 _aPost-communism.
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651 0 _aCommunist countries
_xPolitics and government.
651 7 _aCommunist countries.
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_0(OCoLC)fst01240119
830 0 _aEurope and the international order (New York, N.Y.)
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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