Atlas of Communism Book

Communism has been one of the great political and social movements shaping world history over the last 100 years. It has variously brought inspiration, revolution, freedom and repression to billions of people around the world and has waged a titanic struggle against the march of capitalism.

What is communism? How did it spread at such a pace? And does it really amount to a single cohesive system? For the first time, the Atlas of Communism tells the story of the movement, tracing its ancestry and mapping its progress since the time of Marx. It is a violent epic of social upheavals which incorporate heroism, tragedy, idealism and disillusion.

The Atlas does more than describe political and economic events: it also explores the complex trends which have fostered Communism. Imaginative special features offer a wealth of human interest, and include eyewitness accounts from the barricades, vignettes from the shadowy world of Cold War espionage, partisan songs, posters and banners.