Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this 'Handbook', written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, 'The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism' is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution.

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• Authors: S. A. Smith, S. A. (Senior Research Fellow Smith
• Assisted by: S. A. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2014
• EAN: 9780199602056
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960205-6
• No. of pages: 688
• Series: Oxford Handbooks in History; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks; Oxford Handbooks in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Russland, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Politics and government, Far-left political ideologies and movements, General and world history, Marxism & Communism