The Global Revolution - A History of International Communism 1917-1991

Informationen zum Autor Silvio Pons is Professor of Contemporary History and East European History at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Director of the Gramsci Foundation in Rome. He is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Cold War Studies. His main research interests lie in the global history of communism and in Cold War history. His main publications include The Cominform: Protocols of the Three Conferences (1994); The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War (1996); Russia in the Age of Wars (2000); Stalin and the Inevitable War (2002); Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War (2005); and ADictionary of Twentieth Century Communism (2010). Klappentext A leading European historian offers a fresh analysis of communism as a global movement that played a major part in the formation of our modern world - from the birth of Soviet Russia and the revolution in China to the Cold War and the impact of Western-led processes of globalization.

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• Authors: Silvio Pons
• Assisted by: Alan Cameron (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780199657629
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965762-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subject: Non-fiction book