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John Murray: Hachette Livre, 2004. Today global communism seems just a terrible historical memory, an expressionist nightmare as horrific as Nazism and the Holocaust, or the slaughter in World War I. This book is a global narrative history. It seeks to weigh up the balance sheet: What was the explanation for communisms appeal - not least among many highly intelligent observers in the West? Why did it grow so fast, and collapse with such startling suddenness? Robert Harvey sets out the whole epic story, a panorama of human idealism, cruelty, suffering and courage, and provides an often intriguing analysis.<p>. Paperback. New.