2010, ISBN: 9780674046993

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP AND CRISP. Dustjacket very good plus. Very light shelfwear to jacket. Black lettering lightly deboss… Mehr…

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP AND CRISP. Dustjacket very good plus. Very light shelfwear to jacket. Black lettering lightly debossed to grey cloth spine of black boards. List of maps, xxxvii. Heavy volume. Book measures 9.5 x 6.25 x 2.5". Clean, tight, bright. 1,279 pp with selected bibliography and index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Two thousand years of the Guerrilla at war from ancient Persia to the present. Story of the countries currently torn by armed insurgencies and clarifies the causes of each conflict. Written in four parts : Part One, Lenin's Heritage ; Part Two, Mao and Revolutionary Warfare ; Part Three, Ho . . . Ho . . . Ho Chi Minh ; Part Four, Then Until Now : A Survey., William Morrow and Company, 1994, 4, 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 among intellectuals and ordinary people have not vanished: economic poverty and political oppression. And the lasting message of the book is that something must be done to eradicate poverty and oppression if the world is to avoid a repetition of totalitarianism in some new form. It is a highly readable, compellingly argued and an exciting work of history, if not always a comforting one." (from the blurb), Harvard University Press, 2010, 6<

ISBN: 9780674046993

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… Mehr…

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 protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism’s origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism’s organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion—and an important message for the twenty-first century—is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>World History>World Hist>World History, Harvard University Press Core >1 >T<

2010, ISBN: 9780674046993

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 te… Mehr…

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 among intellectuals and ordinary people have not vanished: economic poverty and political oppression. And the lasting message of the book is that something must be done to eradicate poverty and oppression if the world is to avoid a repetition of totalitarianism in some new form. It is a highly readable, compellingly argued and an exciting work of history, if not always a comforting one." (from the blurb), Harvard University Press, 2010, 6<

ISBN: 9780674046993

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2010, ISBN: 9780674046993

A History of World Communism, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Harvard University Press], Harvard University Press, 2010