From Stalin to Mao : : Albania and the Socialist World / / Elidor Mëhilli.
Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli's unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful...
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Mëhilli, Elidor, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut From Stalin to Mao : Albania and the Socialist World / Elidor Mëhilli. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (346 p.) : 30 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ten Years of War -- 2. The Discovery of a World -- 3. The Methods of Socialism -- 4. Socialism as Exchange -- 5. Mud and Concrete -- 6. The Great Leap -- Afterword. 1991 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli's unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Union-advisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plans-Albania's party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao's patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culture-still evident today around Eurasia-but it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy's involvement in Albania, then explores the country's Eastern bloc entanglements, the profound fascination with the Soviets, and the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet turn. Richly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, From Stalin to Mao draws on a wealth of Albanian, Russian, German, British, Italian, Czech, and American archival sources, in addition to fiction, interviews, and memoirs. Mëhilli's fresh perspective on the Soviet-Chinese battle for the soul of revolution in the global Cold War also illuminates the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) City planning Albania History 20th century. Socialism and culture Albania. History. Political Science & Political History. Soviet & East European History. HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110665871 print 9781501714153 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501709593?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501709593 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501709593/original |
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