| Description |
xviii, 571 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Origins to 1917 -- 1. Communism before Marxism -- 2. Marx and Engels -- 3. Communism in Europe -- 4. Russian variations -- 5. The October revolution -- 6. The first communist state -- Experiment : 1917-1929 -- 7. European revolutions -- 8. Communism and its discontents -- 9. The communist international -- 10. Probing America -- 11. Making sense of communism -- 12. The USSR in torment -- 13. The Soviet model -- Development : 1929-1947 -- 14. World strategy -- 15. Stalinist ideology -- 16. Inside the parties -- 17. Friends and foes -- 18. Communism in the World War -- 19. Forcing the peace -- Reproduction : 1947-1957 -- 20. The Cold War and the Soviet bloc -- 21. The Yugoslav road -- 22. Western Europe -- 23. Warring propaganda -- 24. The Chinese revolution -- 25. Organising communism -- 26. Against and for reform -- Mutation : 1957-1979 -- 27. Detente and expansion -- 28. China convulsed -- 29. Revolutionary Cuba -- 30. Communist order -- 31. Rethinking communism |
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32. Europe east and west -- 33. Reduced expectations -- 34. Last of the communist revolutions -- Endings : from 1980 -- 35. Roads from communism -- 36. Anti-communism in Eastern Europe -- 37. China's capitalist communism -- 38. Perestroika -- 39. The comrades depart -- 40. Accounting for communism |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
UK edition published under title: Comrades : a world history of communism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [522]-549) and index |
| Subject |
Communism -- History -- 19th century.
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Communism -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2006101585 |
| ISBN |
9780674025301 alkaline paper |
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067402530X alkaline paper |
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