Communism: A History
Communism: A History
Author: Richard Pipes
Desc: 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.