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Communism : the vanished specter / Richard Pipes.
- Title
- Communism : the vanished specter / Richard Pipes.
- Author
- Pipes, Richard
- Publication
- Oslo : Scandinavian University Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HX313.5 .P56 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 84 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book reproduces the text of lectures concerning the rise and fall of communism delivered in Oslo in 1993 on the invitation of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Through these lectures, Richard Pipes seeks to explain in broad historical and philosophical terms why communism initially triumphed in Russia, and why it ultimately failed. Rather than stress, as is common in the existing literature, the political and economic causes of the collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe, the author employs anthropological categories to show why this outcome was inevitable even if its timing could not be foreseen. The concluding part of the book isolates elements common to communism and contemporary liberalism in sounding a warning about the future of the West.--
- Series Statement
- Norwegian Nobel Institute lecture series ; [1]
- Uniform Title
- Norwegian Nobel Institute lecture series ; [1].
- Alternative Title
- Communism.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- "Publications by Richard Pipes": p. [83]-84.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [77]-78).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The triumph and collapse of Russian communism -- A warning to the West.
- ISBN
- 8200219089
- LCCN
- ^^^94182976^
- OCLC
- 30337514
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library