Comrades!: A History of World Communism Tapa blanda - 2010

Harvard University Press, 9/1/2010 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Acceptable. 1.8110 in x 9.2126 in x 6.3780 in. Ex-library book with usual stamps and stickers.

Harvard University Press, 2010-09-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Harvard Univ Pr, 2010. Paperback. New. 592 pages. 9.10x6.30x1.20 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 571 pp. Laminated wrappers. "From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, Comrades tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on material from many national collections and several major languages and is the most up-to-date account produced since the 1960s. Ranging across not only the high politics and ideology of the most prominent communist regimes but also daily life under communism, culture and propaganda, Service analyses communism’s appeal abroad as well as local attempts to set up communist administrations. He ends by showing that there was more to communism than mere brutality and demonstrates that while communism in its primordial form is now dead in most countries, the causes of its ability to gather support… Leer más