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This book analyzes and explains how Communist theorists and practitioners tried to cope with nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Walter Kemp looks at the writings of Marx and Engels in the 1840s to the collapse of the Communist bloc and the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991. He identifies a cyclical pattern of behavior that characterized Communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism: a pattern which recurred until the 1980s at which time the ideological and political discrepancies created by the incongruence of nationalism and communism had become so antagonistic as to act as a major catalyst in the collapse of the Communist system.
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