A Short History of Communism (2004)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0312329091

Condition: Very Good

The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents 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? - from the back cover