Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) - Hardcover
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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
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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- VerlagModern Library
- Erscheinungsdatum2001
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- ISBN 13 9780679640509
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Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
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Modern Library
(2001)
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ISBN 13: 9780679640509
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Buchbeschreibung hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Gut. 175 p. Dust jacket creased and lightly rubbed on back, otherwise a good copy, no markings./Schutzumschlag verknickt und am Rücken leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar, keine Markierungen. - Inhaltsverzeichsnis - Preface - .Communist Theory and Program - Historical antecedents; Marx and Engels; Failed expectations of Marxists; The Second International and its collapse - 2.Leninism - Russia's revolutionary tradition; Lenin 28; 1917; - Lenin's dictatorship; Failure of "War Communism"; - Exporting revolution - 3.Stalin and After - Stalin takes charge ;Industrialization and collectivization; The Great Terror; Stalin exploits - Russian nationalism,- Stalin as Lenin's natural heir; - World War II; Khrushchev; Decay and collapse - 4.Reception in the West - The Comintern; Western Communists and fellow travelers; Communism and Nazism; Stalin's dual foreign policy; The Cold War; Post-World War II Communism in the West - 5.The Third World - Common features ; Comintern promotes alliances with nationalists ; Mao and Maoism; Post-Stalinist Soviet policy in the Third World ; China's "Great Leap Forward" and "Cultural Revolution"; Pol Pot's Cambodia; - Allende's Chile; Castro's Cuba; Mengistu's Ethiopia; - Terrorism; Conclusions - viii Contents - 6.Looking Back - Inherent contradictions of Communism as cause of - its repeated failures; Role of ideology; The costs - of Communism. ISBN 9780679640509 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 247. Artikel-Nr. 1222214
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