TY  - BOOK
AU  - Priestland,David
TI  - The red flag: a history of communism 
SN  - 9780802119247
AV  - HX 36 P949r 2009
U1  - 335.4/09 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Communism
KW  - History
KW  - Comunismo
KW  - Historia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: Classical crucible -- A German Prometheus -- Bronze horsemen -- Under western eyes -- Men of steel -- Popular fronts -- The east is red -- Empire -- Parricide -- Guerrillas -- Stasis -- High tide -- Twin revolutions -- Epilogue: Red, orange, green... and red?
N2  - Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany to its rise to dominance (and subsequent fall) in the twentieth century, and shows how Communism, in all its varieties, appealed to different societies for different reasons
ER  -