Power Through Subversion

✍ Scribed by Laurence W. Beilenson

• Year: 0
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

P.311, Washington, Public Affairs Press [1972]
Mr. Beilenson was an adviser to Mr. Reagan in his early political career and wrote three books, ''The Treaty Trap,'' ''Power Through Subversion'' and ''Survival and Peace in the Nuclear Age.''
Here for the first time is an authoritative history of the role subversion has played in shaping the destinies of nations. In these pages the author relates in fascinating detail the strategies used in the overthrow of governments from earliest times to the present, as well as the connection between internal dissidents and the foreign governments which have helped them.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments iii
Preface iv
A Road Map for the Reader v
Part 1 — What Is The Same
A Prophet of Power 3
A Government Is A Sometime Thing 13
Unpredictability of the Place and Time of Overthrow 28
Unpredictability in the Revolts That Lenin Knew Best 44
Lenin’s Acceptance of Unpredictability 66
The Tactics of Traditional and Leninist Subversion 74
The Strategic Characteristics of Traditional External Subversion 90
The Jesuits, Philip II, and Elizabeth I 106
The Vergennes Variation and the French Revolutionists 117
Part II — What Is Different
The Lenin Adaptation 139
Lenin’s Heirs and Adventurous War 150
Setbacks and Successes of the Lenin Adaptation 162
The Chinese Clue 183
North Vietnam, Cuba, and the Subversive Response Since 1917 203
An Appraisal of the Lenin Adaptation 218
Part III — The Topical Question A Suggested American Adaptation 241
Notes and References 256
Bibliography 271
Index 286