A Short History of Communism.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

A Short History of Communism. By Robert Harvey. (New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Pp. xvi, 422. $29.95.)

It astonishes that there exists no historiographical rubric of "communism studies." There are historical fields devoted to the study, for example, of imperialism and the Holocaust, the former also a worldwide oppressive force and the latter also resulting in the annihilation of millions. Yet communism, an ideology and a sociopolitical movement that at one time held half of humankind under its sway and caused, it has been argued, the death of some one ...

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