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Comrades!: A History of World Communism
Comrades A History of World Communism
Author: Robert Service
Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagon...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674046993
ISBN-10: 0674046994
Publication Date: 5/1/2010
Pages: 592
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Hmmm, I'd say he's bigger on the world analysis than the human view. It's a pretty big subject to cover in one book. Most of his previous writings has covered the Russian Communist World, and that's the leaning of this book, his treatment of the Chinese Revolution is rather sparse. It may have been seriously edited and revised, he seems to make reference to events and people that he hasn't detailed earlier. He throws in rather gratuitous metaphors, like "Not content to have their (the nomenklatura) snouts in the trough, they had to have their front trotter in there too." I guess that is shorter than giving facts.


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