Comrades

In Comrades, Robert Service sets out to trace communism's origins and follows its spread across the globe during the twentieth century. The book moves from the USSR to Yugoslavia, Cuba and Western Europe, and chronicles the history of communist theory, spotlighting major events and individuals. It discusses the ideas at the heart of communism and examines communism's place in the world in the twenty-first century, from pre-Marxist thought to modern China. The book presents a portrait of communist theory and history.

Why You Should Read?

• Discover how Robert Service traces communism's origins and its spread across the globe in the twentieth century.
• Follow the book's chronicle of major events and individuals in the history of communist theory.
• Understand the ideas the book places at communism's heart, from pre-Marxist thought through to modern China.
• Learn how the book examines communism's place in the world in the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Robert Service, born on 29 October 1947, is a British historian, academic and author in the post-revisionist tradition. His many writings deal with Soviet history, especially the years between the 1917 October Revolution and the 1953 death of Joseph Stalin. He has also produced lives of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Up to 2013 he taught Russian history as a professor at the University of Oxford and held fellowships at St Antony's College, Oxford, and at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He became a fellow of the British Academy in 1998.