Communism Fails

If now in decline since the tumultuous events of 1989, communism was without doubt the great political movement of the twentieth century–at its peak, more than a third of the world's population lived under communist rule–and it is still a powerful force in many areas of the world, most notably in the People's Republic of China. What is communism?

Written by a Soviet émigré and scholar of Marxism, the book begins with the author’s recounting of the end of the Cold War. Despite the common perception that democracy defeated communism, the author presents evidence that the Democratic Party has adopted Marxism in a new philosophy he calls Liberal Bolshevism.