TY - BOOK AU - Skidelsky,Robert TI - The world after communism: a polemic for our times SN - 033366292X AV - HX44.5 .S557 1996 U1 - 330.904 20 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Papermac KW - Post-communism KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - World history N1 - Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1995; Includes bibliographical references and index; "We will bury you" -- The nature of collectivism -- The rise of collectivism -- The era of wars -- The convergence of pathologies -- Why did Soviet communism collapse? -- The new political economy -- Shock therapy -- Understanding post-communism -- Transformation to what? -- Repairing the state N2 - Analyses the economic and social crises that are emerging as a result of the breakdown of superpower competition and cooperation following the collapse of Communism in the late 1980's ER -