Richard Pipes, Author . Modern Library $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-64050-9
This opinionated introduction to communism would be better subtitled "requiem for a misguided ideology." Pipes (The Russian Revolution) focuses much of the book on his own field of specialty—the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. The...
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Richard Pipes, Author . Yale Univ. $30 (264p) ISBN 978-0-300-10165-2
In this excellent, well-crafted autobiography, Pipes (Communism: A History
) emerges as an opinionated scholar committed to telling the truth as he sees it. A professor emeritus of history at Harvard who served on the National Security Council...
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Richard Pipes, Author Vintage Books USA $21 (608p) ISBN 978-0-679-76184-6
A sequel to The Russian Revolution, this latest effort from Harvard historian Pipes traces the formation of the Bolshevik state from the Russian civil war to the death of Lenin. (Apr.)
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Richard Pipes, Author Vintage Books USA $17.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-74544-0
Distilled from his previous books, Pipes's narrative examines both the revolution itself and its negative repercussions for Russian society. (Dec.)
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Richard Pipes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $40 (944p) ISBN 978-0-394-50241-0
With erudition lightly worn, Harvard historian Pipes, in this massive, wonderfully vivid, gripping chronicle, stresses the role of liberals both in the Russian revolution of 1905, for which the Communists later claimed credit, and in the upheavals...
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Richard Pipes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $35 (587p) ISBN 978-0-394-50242-7
In Harvard historian Pipes's judgment, Lenin, Trotsky and their fellow Bolsheviks were not utopians but fanatics. Seizing power in Russia as the springboard for a global revolution, they deceptively promised every disenchanted group what it wanted...
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Richard Pipes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $30 (431p) ISBN 978-0-679-42277-8
Harvard historian Pipes emphasizes that the Russian Revolution of October 1917 was actually a coup d'etat, a seizing of power by a tightly organized conspiracy, carried out with a show of mass participation but with almost no mass involvement. By...
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Richard Pipes, Author Knopf Publishing Group $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-40498-6
Renowned Sovietologist Pipes (The Russian Revolution, etc.) offers a powerfully argued coda to the Cold War triumph of capitalism. Private property, his thesis runs, is a prerequisite for the development of liberal, democratic legal and political...
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