| Details | | Publication Date: | 2003-08-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 4.8 oz |
Publisher's Note 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.
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