Comrades by Robert Service

Comrades by Robert Service

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Tells the story of communism since its inception. This book offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on material from many national collections and several major languages, and shows that there was more to communism than mere brutality.

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Comrades by Robert Service

Tells the story of communism since its inception. This book offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on material from many national collections and several major languages, and shows that there was more to communism than mere brutality.
Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Blood on the Snow, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9781405053457
ISBN 10 1405053453
Title Comrades
Author Robert Service
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2007-05-04
Number of pages 592
Prizes Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards: History Silver Award 2008
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