The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (Oxford Handbooks)
Brand: OUP Oxford
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Humanities



Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 1.35 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198779410
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print length: 672 pages
Publication date: April 2, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0198779414
Edition: Reprint
subtitle: Reprint Edition
author: S. A. Smith
review: Editorial Reviews Review "The thirty-eight authors of individual essays are carefully chosen and have provided concise, insightful, and up-to-date studies of their topics....This volume marks a step in the direction laid out by [editor S. A.] Smith's introduction: 'Towards a Global History of Communism.'"-- The Russian Review About the Author S. A. Smith is at University of Essex. He was a graduate student at Moscow State University and Peking University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and taught for many years at the University of Essex. More recently, he was professor of comparative history at the European University Institute, Florence. He has written extensively on the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, and is currently writing a book which compares the efforts of the Soviet and Chinese Communist regimes to eliminate 'superstition' from daily life, in areas such as popular religion, calendrical and life-cycle rituals, agriculture, and folk medicine, and which explores how sections of the populace engaged the regimes through 'politics of the supernatural'.