Comrades (Record no. 216698)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0719561477
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency Al
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title Eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 320.532
Item number HARC
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Personal name Robert Harvey
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9 (RLIN) 1805
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Comrades
Remainder of title The rise and fall of world communism
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. John Murray
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvi,422p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 24x16cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Today global communism seems just a terrible historical memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in World War I. Was it only just over a decade ago that stone-faced old men were still presiding over "workers' paradises" in the name of "the people" while hundreds of millions endured grinding poverty under a system of mind-controlling servitude which did not hesitate to murder and imprison whole populations in the cause of "progress"? Or that the world seemed under threat from revolutionary hordes engulfing one country after another, backed by a vast military machine and the threat of nuclear annihilation? In the 1970s, with the fall of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the march of Marxism-Leninism across the world seemed irresistible. Less than two decades later the experiment had collapsed, leaving perhaps 100 million dead, as well as economic devastation spanning continents. Even China now increasingly embraces free market economics. Only in a few backwaters does communism endure, as obsolete as rust-belt industry. This book is a global narrative history of that defining human experience. It seeks to weigh up the balance sheet: why did communism occur largely in countries wrenched from feudalism or colonialism to 20th-century modernism, rather than - as Marx had predicted - in developed countries groaning under the weight of a parasitic middle class? Were coercion and state planning in fact the only way forward for backward countries? What was the explanation for communism's appeal - not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness? Robert Harvey sets out the whole epic story, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an often intriguing analysis.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Communism -- History
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700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name HARVEY (Robert)
9 (RLIN) 1807
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Political Science St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   320.532 HARC GF03139 10/26/2021 0.00 10/26/2021 George Fernandes Collections