Communism: A History

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 08/05/2003
ISBN: 9780812968644
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.27w x 0.42d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 71652 / Communism: A History
Reading Level: 12.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10