TY - BOOK AU - HOLMES Leslie TI - Communism: a very short introduction SN - 9780199551545 (pbk.) : PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford ; New York : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - COMMUNISM KW - HISTORY N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "This Very Short Introduction considers the theory of communism from Marx's time to its practice in the Bolshevik Revolution, and its collapse in 1989-91. It also examines how Communism operates in practice - politically, economically, and socially. Leslie Holmes reveals Communism's inner dynamics, and examines its contrasts and contradictions ER -