Communism, Nationalism and the Growth of the Communist Community of Nations After World War II

Bibliographic Data

ID3533712
AuthorsPaul Shoup (Kenyon College, corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume56
Issue4
Pages886-898
Publication date1962-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1952791
OpenAlexW1996595248
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited8

In the apocalyptic visions of Marx, the world revolution which was to destroy capitalist society was also to sweep away the entire system of nation-states, and in its place to substitute a world proletarian society, a new supra-national community ruled over by the victorious working class.Of all the prophecies of early Marxism, none proved more ill-founded than this belief in an international socialist order. The revolution, when it came, was confined to Russia. Only after the victories of the Soviet armies in World War II did it become possible to extend Communist rule beyond the borders of the Soviet Union. After less than two decades, this new international Communist community of nations has become divided into blocs of quarrelling states, and the goal of international Communism seems still distant. The Communists, like other universalistic movements of the past, have apparently proved incapable of surmounting the limits of the nation-state system they set out to destroy. Why

Class conflict · Communism · Economic history · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Vision · World community · World War II · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Soviet and Russian History

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