Introduction: Socialist revolution as a global process -- Asian axis: the PKI and the struggle for power in Sukarno's Indonesia -- Democratic communism: Allende's Chile and peaceful transition -- Tanzanian Ujamaa: building socialism in a communist world -- Lenin without Marx: communism comes to Angola -- Opiate of the masses, or stimulant? Socialism, religion, and revolution in Iran -- Conclusion: The evolution of socialism.
Summary
"A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide"--