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Robert Service

Review Essay
Jul/Aug
2007
Seeing Red: Why Communism Really Failed
Donald Sassoon

Robert Service's Comrades! tells the story of world communism -- but leaves the reader still hungry for explanations of why the movement lasted so long and what, if anything, it accomplished.
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2004
Russia: Experiment With a People
Robert Legvold
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2000
Lenin: A Biography
Robert Legvold
Capsule Review
May/Jun
1998
A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
Robert Legvold
Capsule Review
Fall
1979
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution 1917-1923
John C. Campbell
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance
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