Obituary for the god that failedCOMRADES: A History Of World Communismby Robert Service(London: Macmillan)Hardcover: 624 pagesRec. price: AUD$80.00A few things leap out from the title. First, how could anyone encompass such a huge and complex subject in one volume without its becoming the sort of history famously described as “just one damned thing after another”?Robert Service, professor of Russian History at Oxford, has coped very well, blending straight chronology with analysis and quirky det…
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