The Rise and Fall of Communism, Archie Brown
The Rise and Fall of Communism, Archie Brown
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The Rise and Fall of Communism

Author: Archie Brown

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 31 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2020

Synopsis

From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism, a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe.

The Rise and Fall of Communism explores how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents, to hold on to power for so long; and what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems. For this comprehensive and illuminating work, Brown draws on more than 40 years of research and on a wealth of new sources.
Tracing the story of Communism from its 19th-century roots, Brown explains both its expansion and its decline in the 20th century. Even today, although Communism has been widely discredited in the West, almost a quarter of humanity still lives under its rule.

About The Author

ARCHIE BROWN is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University. His book The Gorbachev Factor won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize of the Political Studies Association of the U.K. for best political science book of the year and the Alec Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. He lives in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on January 21, 2025

Professor Archie Brown contemplates writing The Rise and Fall of Communism: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on e......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on January 31, 2015

I only read the first few chapters, dealing with the origins of communism (surprise: read Acts of the Apostles 4:32) and its history in the 1920s and early 1930s. I am trying to understand the oft-stated argument that the Catholic Church's support and tolerance of Hitler and his agenda was primarily......more

Goodreads review by Russell on April 13, 2020

My co-instructor and I selected this book for our Communism in History course this year; while the coronavirus pandemic derailed most of our plans starting at spring break, I still worked through the book, looking for things to assign our students. It's really a solid history; not nearly as engaged......more

Goodreads review by Anatoly on January 02, 2017

A very informative (at times too much) and interesting work. For most of the time I was really quite hooked. The only downside was that probably too much information is given even when there is no justification. But its natural that this happenes due to the scope of events that shaped communism and......more

Goodreads review by Wick on October 07, 2024

This is a decent, albeit dry, historical account of the rise of Communism starting with the Bolshevik Revolution and proceeding through Stalinism, the Khrushchev thaw, the fundamental changes within the USSR until it's eventual fall. Brown also very much explores every other communist state includin......more

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