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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Mahmood
- 03-23-10
its good
it was a short but fair and educative review of communism that shows the true nature of this ideology that it fails because it is wrong not because they couldnt perform it well and how dangerous it can become
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Edward
- 02-20-07
Right on the Money
This book is very informative and quite graphic with some of it's descriptions on the horror that communism has unleashed upon humankind. It charts the rise of socialist ideals with Marx and Engles and goes through the communist and socialist movements of the twentiethh century all the way up to the present day.
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- Aaron E. Michel
- 07-18-18
Achieved the Impossible
Amazing that the author could do such a good job of summarizing the history of communism. But the success of the USSR is understated, at least the part about the subversion of USA, Germany, Japan, and China. See Diana West, American Betrayal and M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History. The penetration of USA started early and lead to the adoption of foreign policy favorable to USSR but unfavorable to USA and others. Soviet agents in USA and Japan managed to get USA fighting Japan and Germany rather than maintaining two strong bookends to the USSR. Deftly got Germany into WWII by joining them only to switch sides and get military equipment and nuclear weapons through lend lease to conquer East Europe and promote the Korean War. Agents fabricated information about anti-communists in Eastern Europe and China to make it easy to kill off the anticommunists in those countries. They set Americans against Americans and corrupted our government to the core.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Ziloni
- 08-09-07
Informative
Quite informative. A bit slow in a few spots, and I felt a bit missing in others.
But overall it is informative and worth a read.
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- Stephen F (SPFJR)
- 07-22-19
BEST Short Summary of Global Communism
Few subjects have more misconceptions than that of Communism. Most people cannot define the ideology properly or give a good description of why the Soviet Union went “out of control” so quickly. This book explains all that with an eye toward speaking plainly. It has short clear examples where needed but doesn’t get bogged down in details.
This is the book to start with for context on this topic with a special emphasis on the Soviet Union.
If you like the topic and want to learn more with audible, check out:
Pipes; Russian Revolution (best book on topic)
Figes; A People’s Tragedy (About Russian revolution)
McMeekin; Russian Revolution (broader look at local influences)
Kotkin; Stalin volume 1&2 (best book on topic)
Conquest; The Great Terror (best book on topic)
Remnick; Lenin’s Tomb (highly readable look at the contradictions that doomed the Soviet Union...this book assumes a good deal of background knowledge...knowledge you can get from PIPES book on Communism :-) )
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 03-08-10
A great debunking of communist myths
It won't change those who believe in the religion of Communism. But it provides more ammunition to those that understand what an evil philosophy it truly is.
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- Jeff Lacy
- 05-08-22
Compelling and interesting with a diligent and entertaining performance
George Wilson gives a diligent and entertaining performance to Russian scholar, Richard Pipes’ compelling and well written commentary on the ideology of communism as well as its implementation by Lenin and the Bolshevik coup d’etat, by the Soviet Union, and regimes following, and the failure of communism as a method of governance. This is a worthwhile book for the student reading histories of Russia and the Soviet Union, Lenin and Stalin especially. This is a simple and clear book written for a general audience. Wilson conveys the message of COMMUNISM in a matter of fact, friendly, and easy to understand way.
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- Book Hound
- 10-31-21
Excellent factual overview of the Communism.
I have read over 150 books concerning communism and this one actually documents the forming of the first, second and third international. It illustrates how a very small handful of people can direct an entire population of millions of people into a life of misery for their own good. Give me a lever and a place to stand and I can move the world. The crowd is just such a lever.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- John O. Swendseid
- 05-30-22
More of an historical criticism?
This audiobook is too much opinion and too little history/facts. I was very disappointed. Hoping for an objective history of communism. Just the facts. Instead this is a moral essay about how bad communism was during every decade since 1917 and in every country where a government claimed to be communist.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Mazen
- 07-06-06
Interesting but lacks objectivity
This book is essentially a condemnation of communism. The author was a member of the Reagan administration and it shows. On the other hand, the author succeeds in covering a very broad subject in an interesting manner. This is not a boring book.
The main failing of the book is that it makes no attempt to be objective. It's paints communism as almost unmitigated evil and communist leaders are evil men with no goodwill or conscience ... ever. I listened to the book to be informed, not to be indoctrinated, and that's precisely where the book fails for me.
On the other hand the book is interesting. It covers communism from its roots to modern times, reminding us of the causes and consequences of its rise in different nations (from its own point of view). Unsurprisingly, the book gives special attention to the USSR and its influence on world communism. While the book fails to be objective, it doesn't alter facts to suit its aims (as far as I could tell.) In other words, it may distort but it doesn't lie.
The author is clearly well informed and the book is an easy read. I hope that a future book or a future edition can be more objective.
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