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Article: From the nineteenth century to the present, in countries as various as Russia, China, Cambodia, and Cuba, as well as sundry movements in the West, Robert Service judiciously recounts the fortunes of communism that a little more than twenty years ago controlled more than a fifth of the world's population and appeared to be on a victorious march of unstoppable conquest.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- November 1, 2007
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* From the nineteenth century to the present, in countries as various as Russia, China, Cambodia, and Cuba, as well as sundry movements in the West, Robert Service judiciously recounts the fortunes of communism that a little more than twenty years ago controlled more than a fifth of the world's population and appeared to be on a victorious march of unstoppable conquest. Many of the "best and brightest" in the West thought the best we could hope for was an accommodation, called coexistence, with a permanent force of history that might, in time, temper its terror. Even so intelligent a man as Henry Kissinger spoke of the Sparta of communism vs. the Athens of freedom. If we ...
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