The Cambridge History of Communism - Volume 1

About the author

Silvio Pons is Professor of Contemporary History at the Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata'. He is the President of the Gramsci Foundation in Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cold War Studies. Recent publications include Stalin and the Inevitable War (2014); A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Communism (2010) and The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism (2014). He has extensively researched and written on the Cold War, the Soviet Union, European Communism, and global Communism.Stephen A. Smith is a historian of modern Russia and China, a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Professor of History in Oxford University. Recent publications include Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890–1928 (2017). His current research focuses on 'supernatural politics', comparing the ways in which peasants in Soviet Russia (1917–41) and in China (1949–76) used the resources of popular religion and magic to make sense of the turbulent changes that overwhelmed their lives in the course of the Communist revolutions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Silvio Pons (Editor), Pons Silvio (Editor), Stephen A Smith (Editor), Stephen A. Smith (Editor), Smith Stephen A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107092846
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09284-6
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Series: The Cambridge History of Communism; The Cambridge History of Communism 3 Volume Hardback Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; History: specific events & topics, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, History: specific events and topics, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General