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INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES: THE CRISIS OF MARXISM-LENINISM
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 30-33
ISSN: 0017-257X
THE CRISIS OF COMMUNISM AND THE CHALLENGE IT PRESENTS TO RULING PARTIES OF A MARXIST-LENINIST PERSUASION ARE BIGGER THAN THE SUM OF ITS INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL PARTS. ONCE, COMMUNISM IN MARXIST-LENINIST GUISE SEEMED TO BE AN IDEA THAT WOULD TAKE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY STORM. NOW MARXIST-LENINISTS LOOK FEARFULLY TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM, INCREASINGLY VOID OF IDEAS FOR RESOLVING THE ECONOMIC, MORAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL CHALLENGES THAT CONFRONT THEM.