Communism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0199551545 | 2009-09-21 | PDF | 144 pages | 2 Mb
If now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century–at its peak, more than a third of the world's population lived under communist rule–and it is still a powerful force in many areas of the world, most notably in the People's Republic of China. What is communism?