Communism: A History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812968644)

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."

Author: Richard Pipes
ISBN-10: 0812968646
ISBN-13: 9780812968644
Publisher: Modern Library
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2003
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.27w x 0.42d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 71652 / Communism: A History