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From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. The Rise... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Add a description of this character.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Stalin
- Karl Marx
- Lenin
- Yeltsin
- Malenkov
- Beria
- Mao Zedong
- Yury Andropov
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Tito
- Alexander Yakovlev
- Reagan
- Hitler
- Kádár
- Nagy
- Mikoyan
- Dubcˇek
- Churchill
- Gottwald
- Ligachev
- Chernenko
- Solzhenitsyn
- Ulbricht
- Castro
- Dimitrov
- Gromyko
- Suslov
- Jaruzelski
- Shevardnadze
- Sakharov
- Zhou Enlai
- Rákosi
- Taraki
- Batista
- Kuznetsov
- Novotny
- Kim Il-sung
- Shakhnazarov
- Roosevelt
- Gierek
- Zhukov
Setting & Locations edit
- Soviet Union
- China
- Moscow
- Czechoslovakia
- Poland
- Russia
- United States
- Hungary
- Eastern Europe
- East Germany
- Cuba
- Yugoslavia
- Britain
- Vietnam
- France
- Albania
- Ukraine
- Asia
- Afghanistan
- Romania
- Prague Spring
- Laos
- Politburo
- Kremlin
- Usa
- Cambodia
- North Korea
- Beijing
- Bulgaria
- South Africa
- Kosygin
- Ussr
- Italy
- Washington
- Helsinki
- Paris
- London
- Budapest
- Mongolia
- Berlin
- Western Europe
- Georgia
- America
- West Germany
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Archie Brown (Author)
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Page Count: 736
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- Dewey: 320.532
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