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- catalog abstract ""This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than - as Marx had predicted - in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for its appeal - not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness?" "Robert Harvey sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12901000.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This book is the first global narrative history of that defining human experience. It weighs up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to twentieth-century modernism, rather than - as Marx had predicted - in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for its appeal - not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness?" "Robert Harvey sets out the whole epic story for the first time, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an intriguing new analysis."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 422 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0719561477".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : John Murray,".
- catalog subject "320.532 21".
- catalog subject "Communism History.".
- catalog subject "HX36 .H364 2003".
- catalog title "Comrades : the rise and fall of world communism / Robert Harvey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".