From Stalin to Mao : Albania and the socialist world

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Label

From Stalin to Mao : Albania and the socialist world

Title remainder

Albania and the socialist world

Statement of responsibility

Elidor Mëhilli

Creator

• Mëhilli, Elidor, 1981-

Author

• Mëhilli, Elidor, 1981-

Subject

• Albania -- Civilization -- 20th century
• Albania -- Relations -- Communist countries
• City planning
• City planning -- Albania -- History -- 20th century
• Civilization
• Communist countries
• Communist countries -- Relations -- Albania
• 1900-1999
• History
• International relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• Socialism and culture
• Socialism and culture -- Albania
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern
• Albania

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Elidor Mëhilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mëhilli's unprecedented access to previously restricted archives, captures the powerful globalism of post-1945 socialism, as well as the unintended consequences of cross-border exchanges from the Mediterranean to East Asia. After a decade of vigorous borrowing from the Soviet Union--advisers, factories, school textbooks, urban plans--Albania's party clique switched allegiance to China during the 1960s Sino-Soviet conflict, seeing in Mao's patronage an opportunity to keep Stalinism alive. Mëhilli shows how socialism created a shared transnational material and mental culture--still evident today around Eurasia--but it failed to generate political unity. Combining an analysis of ideology with a sharp sense of geopolitics, he brings into view Fascist Italy's involvement in Albania, then explores the country's Eastern bloc entanglements, the profound fascination with the Soviets, and the contradictions of the dramatic anti-Soviet turn. Richly illustrated with never-before-published photographs, From Stalin to Mao draws on a wealth of Albanian, Russian, German, British, Italian, Czech, and American archival sources, in addition to fiction, interviews, and memoirs. Mëhilli's fresh perspective on the Soviet-Chinese battle for the soul of revolution in the global Cold War also illuminates the paradoxes of state planning in the twentieth century

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

303.48/249650171709045

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

DR953.C725

LC item number

M45 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography