Fifty Years of Communism Theory and Practice (1917-1967) by G. F. Hudson [U.K. PAPERBACK] 1972 • Pelican

Fifty Years of Communism Theory and Practice (1917-1967) by G. F. Hudson

FIRST U.K. PAPERBACK EDITION [1972] POCKET BOOKS

2nd print / 1972.

Book is in very good condition.  Shelf wear to cover.  Pages are clean, unmarked and read perfectly.

What would Marx think of Marxism if he were alive today? Marxism, it could be said, has assumed strange shapes which would evoke his astonishment and often his indignation.

The development of communism, both in theory and practice, since the Bolshevik capture of power in Russia in 1917 is the subject of this remarkable work by G. F. Hudson of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Fifty Years of Communism begins with an account of the origins of Marxism and goes on to describe all the major events in the history of communism including Stalin's great purge, the rise of communism in China, Maoism, and communism in the Third World.

... it forces one to re-examine one's views on the great issues with which it deals. And few will disagree with the author's searing account of the great purges in Russia in the thirties or with his criticism of the set-up there today' - George Aitken in Tribune