Communism: a TLS Companion - Tapa blanda

From the overthrow of the tsars until the sudden collapse of Soviet communism, the most influential Western analysts have reflected on and debated the rise and fall of communism in the pages of the TLS. The diverse opinions gathered in Communism: A TLS Companion reflect the succession of Western attitudes to the birth, growth, and death of communism. Contributors to this volume include Isaac Deutscher, Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Pipes, Hugh Seton-Watson, Robert Conquest, Geoffrey Hosking, C. M. Woodhouse, Max Hayward, Leszek Kolakowski, Timothy Garton Ash, and many others of equal distinction. The volume is arranged in four sections covering the period leading to the Russian Revolution, the post-Revolution era of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin; the Soviet Union from World War II to 1968; and the final period of disillusionment and collapse.

In Communism, Ferdinand Mount has gathered fifty-two articles in which the most influential Western analysts, expressing opinions from the dismissive to the ecstatic, react to the unfolding drama in the East. Articles on the Russian Revolution, the rise and fall of Soviet leaders and cultural heroes, and the sudden collapse of the Soviet system reflect successive Western attitudes to the communism phenomenon.