-Outstanding Title... This volume grew out of the author's
collection of essays written in the early and mid-1980s on state
power and poverty in Marxist-Leninist countries. It focuses on the
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam.
Marxism promised elimination of poverty caused by capitalist
exploitation and economic abundance for the masses in exchange for
total sacrifice of freedom... [D]ocument[s] the extent to which
Marxist governments, so eager to blame poverty on capitalism, have
failed to eradicate poverty in their own domains. Clearly written
and well documented, this timely study is recommended for academic
and public libraries.- --O. Zinam, Choice
"Outstanding Title... This volume grew out of the author's
collection of essays written in the early and mid-1980s on state
power and poverty in Marxist-Leninist countries. It focuses on the
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam.
Marxism promised elimination of poverty caused by capitalist
exploitation and economic abundance for the masses in exchange for
total sacrifice of freedom... [D]ocument[s] the extent to which
Marxist governments, so eager to blame poverty on capitalism, have
failed to eradicate poverty in their own domains. Clearly written
and well documented, this timely study is recommended for academic
and public libraries." --O. Zinam, Choice
"Outstanding Title... This volume grew out of the author's
collection of essays written in the early and mid-1980s on state
power and poverty in Marxist-Leninist countries. It focuses on the
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam.
Marxism promised elimination of poverty caused by capitalist
exploitation and economic abundance for the masses in exchange for
total sacrifice of freedom... [D]ocument[s] the extent to which
Marxist governments, so eager to blame poverty on capitalism, have
failed to eradicate poverty in their own domains. Clearly written
and well documented, this timely study is recommended for academic
and public libraries." --O. Zinam, Choice
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