"A work of considerable delicacy and nuance....Brown has crafted a readable and judicious account of Communist history...that is both controversial and commonsensical." "Ranging wisely and lucidly across the decades and around the world, this is a splendid book." The Rise and Fall of Communism is the definitive history from the internationally...
--Salon.com
--William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era