( Comrades; Communism: a World History , Robert Service Macmillan, 2007) University Expert Russia has already written biographies of Lenin and Stalin, Robert Service attacks this time to a subject even more vast and highly controversial, particularly communism itself, through its world history, from its roots to its timeliness.
And if he actually excels in history Soviet communism, it is however limited to the territory of the former USSR to give a critical portrait of the political system which has left in its wake further e victims than have caused fascism.
Through the count that the author of the dead killed in the name of this egalitarian ideology, one feels dawn mistrust and lack of sympathy he feels for the doctrine and the means, although still strives to remain neutral and let the facts often speak for themselves, eloquently elsewhere.
Despite the tragic dimensions of the subject and infinitely large, it succeeds to make a coherent story and fun to read thanks to his talent as a writer, although it remains impossible to go around the question in the space of one book.
In this sense, it constitutes an excellent introduction that some will choose to complete later with other readings, while others will be satisfied with this very comprehensive summary incidentally.
Bruno Peres
Some links:
Harvard University Press
Party Politics, New Statesman
Movement of the People, The Guardian
Why Did communism survive for so long? , The Spiked Review of Books
Comrad es; Communism: a World History
Robert Service Macmillan, 2007
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