CommunismBy: Richard Pipes Series: Modern Library Chronicles With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetimes scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation state. This is the story of how the agitation of Karl Marx