{"product_id":"reds-paul-mason-9781668057186","title":"Reds: A Global History of Communism","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \"possibly the most engaged mainstream journalist of our age\" (\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a new global history of communism--ranging from Renaissance England to 21st century China and tracing communism's transformation from a political idea, into a mass movement, and ultimately into totalitarian regimes that covered half the earth.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty years ago, we thought we'd seen the last of communism. Today, the world's most successful economy labels itself communist. If China becomes the dominant country on the planet, it will get to rewrite the definition of communism--and the history books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Capitalism, meanwhile, is in trouble, together with the rules-based global order that was once its strongest selling point. Millions of people in the Global South see China's offer of an authoritarian, state-led development model as a viable alternative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eReds\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Mason sets out to arm a new generation, who never experienced the death throes of the Soviet system, with an understanding of where it came from and why it failed. He shows how communism mutated from a Utopian critique of early capitalism into a revolutionary plan of action, migrating from the advanced economies to the periphery to inflict existential defeats on the autocracies of Russia, China, and their satellites. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He confronts the horrors of mass incarceration and devastating famine, alongside the heroism of workers and peasant activists for whom all other alternatives to fascism had failed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eReds \u003c\/i\u003eexplains why, and what we can do to guard against a repeat of the Gulag and the Purges. With capitalism failing and the far right on the advance, \u003ci\u003eReds \u003c\/i\u003ewarns a new generation against the dangers of authoritarian leftist politics which substitutes action for ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Mason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668057182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668057186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.23d","brand":"Paul Mason","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48450519859455,"sku":"9781668057186","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35fb109d-4b24-44f2-b230-c302b8781ff1.jpg?v=1777268154","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reds-paul-mason-9781668057186","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}