Article: Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism. Robert Harvey. John Murray. [pounds sterling]25.00. 422 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6147-7. In this fast moving and well written survey the former MP turns his attention to the greatest evil the world has ever known, in whose name and for whose furtherance countess millions suffered and died. The story of Communism was 'the most spectacular rise and fall in global history'. Mr Harvey rightly describes it as a religion but one which was in reality 'a shattering global human experience'. He divides his text into three parts. The first, 'Explosion', looks at Marx's inheritance and the growth of Communism in Russia, China, Vietnam, ...

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