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Comrades

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30 September 2009
592 pages
9780330516365
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

One of the best-ever studies of the subject . . . a remarkable accomplishmentThe Economist
An outstanding book, written with grace and styleVictor Sebestyen, The Daily Telegraph
Bears all the hallmarks of a classic work of historical literature . . . the true international legacy of communism [is] analysed to magisterial effect in this exhilarating workHwyel Williams, The New Statesman
[A] brilliantly distilled world history of communism . . . Confronted by Service's amazing array of evidence to show that communism could only ever have flourished under conditions of extreme and all-pervasive oppression, only the determinedly softheaded would try to argue with himCraig Brown, Mail on Sunday