Communism : A Brief History
by Pipes, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- V. Good/V. Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297646885
- ISBN 13
- 9780297646884
- Seller
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cremona, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. 180 pp includes index and suggestions for further reading. A life's work culminating in this volume of the history of communism from its beginning through the fall of the Soviet Empire to the present day. Entire book is in great condition, no tears, no creases, no former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.. HC and DJ. V. Good/V. Good. 8 x 5 1/2.
Synopsis
From one of 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 countryis 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, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ghost River Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006399B
- Title
- Communism : A Brief History
- Author
- Pipes, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - V. Good
- Jacket Condition
- V. Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297646885
- ISBN 13
- 9780297646884
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- COMMUNISM_HISTORY
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