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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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Modern Library Chronicles - 7: Communism, Richard Pipes
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Modern Library Chronicles - 7: Communism
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Pipes
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0812968646
- ISBN13
- 9780812968644
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, Business, Business & Management, Political Science & Politics, Philosophical Topics, References & Manuals, Politics, Economics, USA, Society, Professional Literature, Russia, Europe, History of Europe, Culture, Political Theories, Cultural History, Communism, Soviet Union, Social History, Totalitarianism, Russian Revolution
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- 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.