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Article: A Short History of Communism.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2006
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A Short History of Communism. By Robert Harvey. (New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004. Pp. xvi, 422. $29.95.)
It astonishes that there exists no historiographical rubric of "communism studies." There are historical fields devoted to the study, for example, of imperialism and the Holocaust, the former also a worldwide oppressive force and the latter also resulting in the annihilation of millions. Yet communism, an ideology and a sociopolitical movement that at one time held half of humankind under its sway and caused, it has been argued, the death of some one hundred million people, boasts no historical journals, no academic programs, no endowed chairs, not ...
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