Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

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ISBN-10:

0812968646

ISBN-13:

9780812968644

Author(s): Pipes, Richard
Edition: Reprint
Released: Aug 05, 2003
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
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Description:

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 reorganization 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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