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Article: Close thy Orwell, open thy Muggeridge.(Communism: A Brief History)
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- June 1, 2002
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Communism: A Brief History, by Richard Pipes; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, $39.95.
HOW DO YOU REACH a sceptical generation convinced that the Cold War was simply another power struggle in which what was laughingly called "the free world" lost credibility when it called in the reactionary "McCarthyites" and religious "authoritarians"?
Richard Pipes, the Harvard historian who served as President Reagan's National Security Council adviser, has settled on one answer in his Communism: A Brief History. He ignores the role of the churches in the fall of communism and does not mention American anti-communists except in such throwaway lines as "there was never ...