✨ Featured Offer
Used, Very Good
$11.79
List Price: $19.95
🚚
See all 5 offers from $11.79 FREE standard delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Overview
From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea. With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. Drawing on much new information, Richard Pipes explains the countryís evolution from the 1917 revolution to the Great Terror and World War II, global expansion and the Cold War chess match with the United States, and the regime's decline and ultimate collapse. There is no more dramatic story in modern history, nor one more crucial to master, than that of how the writing and agitation of two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers named Marx and Engels led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire, consumed the world in conflict, and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.
| ISBN-13 | 9780679640509 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0679640509 |
| Weight | 0.55 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.75 x 7.75 In |
| List Price | $19.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 192 pages |
| Publisher | A Modern Library Chronicles Book |
| Published On | 2001-09-04 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
✨ Used, Very Good
Seller details
HPB-Movies
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
More Than Words
Waltham, MA, USA
. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonpro...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
HPB-Diamond
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
HPB Inc.
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Sequitur Books
Boonsboro, MD, USA
Size: 4x0x7; [Interesting provenance, from the library of Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa. ] Hardcover a...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026