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B-191928
Communism
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SKU | B-191928 |
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Author | Pipes Richard |
Publisher | Modern Library |
Number of Pages | 192 |
Cover | Paperback |
Format | Medium |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-0812968644 |
Dimensions | 5.2" x 8" |
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.