Richard Pipes
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Communism
- By: Richard Pipes
- Narrator: Richard Pipes
- Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 04, 2008
- Language: English
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3.77(695 ratings)
From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
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- By: Richard Pipes
- Length: 41 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: July 16, 2019
- Language: English
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4.03(781 ratings)
Groundbreaking in its inclusiveness, enthralling in its narrative of a movement whose purpose, in the words of Leon Trotsky, was “to overthrow the world,” The Russian Revolution draws conclusions that have aroused great controversy in this country. Richard Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d’etat-“the capture of governmental power by a small minority.”
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