Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) - Hardcover

Pipes, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0679640509 ISBN 13: 9780679640509

Verlag: Modern Library, 2001

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Book by Pipes Richard

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A distinguished scholar and author of The Russian Revolution traces the history of communism from the antecedents of Karl Marx, through its spread to Russa and adoption by a group of radical intellectuals led by Lenin, to the fall of the Soviet empire and beyond. 25,000 first printing.

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our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.

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. Drawing on much new information, Richard Pipes explains the countryís evolution from the 1917 revolution to the Great Terror and World War II, global expansion and the Cold War chess match with the United States, and the regime's decline and ultimate collapse. There is no more dramatic story in modern history, nor one more crucial to master, than that of how the writing and agitation of two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers named Marx and Engels led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consu

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• Verlag: Modern Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679640509
• ISBN 13: 9780679640509
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 175