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Politics

A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service, translated by Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend

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March 2011, no. 329

A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service, translated by Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend

Princeton University Press (Footprint Books), $149 hb, 959 pp

Politics

A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism edited by Silvio Pons and Robert Service, translated by Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend

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March 2011, no. 329

This mammoth book, first published in Italy in 2006, now appears in an English translation. It consists of some four hundred entries on communism as a world movement. The entries cover aspects of communist theory and practice, organisations and institutions, historical events, leading figures, and key concepts. They range in length from less than a thousand to four thousand words.

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Stuart Macintyre

Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021) was an award-winning academic and popular historian. Born and educated in Melbourne, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge before returning to Australia in 1979. Throughout a long and distinguished career, Stuart authored many award-winning monographs and references titles, including The Oxford History Australian History, Volume 4 (1986), The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality (1999) and with Anna Clark, The History Wars (2003).

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