ebooks The Temptations of Trade: Britain; Spain; and the Struggle for Empire (The Early Modern Americas) by Adrian Finucane in History

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With astonishing authority and clarity; Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s 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 and Friedrich Engels; two mid-nineteenth-century European thinkers and writers; led to a great and terrible world religion that brought down a mighty empire; consumed the world in conflict; and left in its wake a devastation whose full costs can only now be tabulated.