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Communism : A History
Paperback Edition: 1
With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union,
the most comprehensive reorganisation of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. This is the story of how the agitation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers and writers, led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.
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Pages : 192
Publisher : Modern Library
Publication date : 2003-08-05
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Politics, Marxism & Communism