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Communism
A History
Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6864-4 (0-8129-6864-6)

With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.

At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Property and Freedom

Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70447-5 (0-375-70447-7)

Richard Pipes, Harvard scholar and historian of the Russian Revolution, brings his remarkable erudition to an exploration of a wide range of national and political systems to demonstrate persuasively that private ownership has served over the centuries to limit the power of the state and enable democratic institutions to evolve and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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Three "Whys" of the Russian Revolution

Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 27, 1997
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77646-8 (0-679-77646-X)

"It is my considered judgment that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and certainly no Cold War, which once dominated our lives. I will attempt here to distill the essence of my... Read more >

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A Concise History of the Russian Revolution

Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74544-0 (0-679-74544-0)

Pipes' masterly works The Russian Revolution and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime are regarded as the classic treatments of the seminal transforming event of the twentieth century. Pipes has now distilled that two-volume account into a brilliant new history that is likely to become the standard one-volume account of the Russian... Read more >

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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 4, 1995
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76184-6 (0-679-76184-5)

Pipes describes the Civil War, the attempts to export the revolution abroad, and the solidification of the Communist state in the early 1920s. He argues that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was... Read more >

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The Russian Revolution

Written by Richard Pipes


Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 5, 1991
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-73660-8 (0-679-73660-3)

In this monumental history of the Russian Revolution, Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution was an intellectual, rather than a class, uprising; that it was steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was not a revolution at all but a coup d'état. Pipes goes on to examine... Read more >
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