Communism
Subtitle: a history
By: Richard Pipes
Edition: 2001 Modern Library ed.
Series: Modern Library chronicles -- 7
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780679640509
Subjects: Communism; History
Description: Traces the history of communism from the antecedents of Karl Marx, through its spread to Russia and adoption by a group of radical intellectuals led by Lenin, to the fall of the Soviet empire and beyond.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Communist theory and program; title: Leninism; title: Stalin and after; title: Reception in the West; title: The Third World; title: Looking back.