Communism in Vietnam developed in the context of Vietnam's anti-colonial struggle against France, the growing Sino-Soviet ideological and military conflict, and Vietnam's localization of foreign...

Communism connotes any societal arrangement based on communal ownership, production, consumption, self-government, perhaps even communal sexual mating. The term refers both to such societies and practices and to any theory advocating them. Examples of...

Originally outlined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto (1848), Communism is a social and political system in which all property is owned communally and all wealth distributed among citizens according to need. Although it was a...

Communism can mean one of two things: a theoretical ideal found in the writings of Marx, or the actual governing principles of the self-described communist states in the modern world. When used, for example, in the communist parties of France, Italy,...

Communism is a socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production. It is usually considered a branch of the broader socialist movement that draws on the various...

Communication and Community. Gregory J. Shepherd and Eric W. Rothenbuhler, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2001. 289 pp. $59.95 hbk. $32.50 pbk. Though its editors note that current public debates on the state of the American community inspired this volume, its...

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Harlin McEwen says his grandchildren are able to communicate in a more technologically advanced way than are most of the nation's police and firefighters, and that concerns him.A former police chief in New York state with 47 years of law enforcement experience, McEwen is an...

We've all heard the expression "communication is a two-way street." Perhaps nowhere is this more relevant than in the business world. In everything from one-off project proposals to corporate mergers which affect operations and potentially thousands of employees and customers, the only way each side,...

Explores the history of the American struggle against Communism. Also examines the importance of the Truman Doctrine and its role in Cold War policies.

Essay discusses why Communism would appeal to people.