Communism
| Titel: | Communism : a brief history / Richard Pipes |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001 |
| Umfang: | XI, 180 S. ; 20 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 0297646885 |
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Beginning with Plato and the first expressions of a utopian vision of a property-less society, Pipes describes communism's historical antecedents, through to Marx, Engels and the birth of communism as a theory of class relations and a call to arms. He traces its spread to Russia and its adoption by young radical intellectuals led by Lenin, and explores why Russia, against all Marx's predictions was such a fertile ground. He goes on to reckon with the history of the Soviet Union, from the Russian Revolution and the Civil War, Stalin, Stalinism and the Great Terror, and World War II to the regime's decline and it's ultimate collapse.
