Weidenfeld & Nicolson, January 2001. Hardcover . Very Good/Good. Very Good- Hardcover with Good+ Dustjacket. Light to moderate shelfwear to DJ, including a small tear. Light to mild soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Writing on half-title page. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

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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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Bookseller: Jane Addams Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 287201
Title: Communism; a Brief History
Author: Richard Pipes
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0297646885
ISBN 13: 9780297646884
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: January 2001
Pages: 176

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