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The end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989–1991 was a major world event. Was communism doomed? In particular, was communism, either in theory or practice, contradictory to human nature itself? Many people think so. The book attempts to answer the question.
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Kemp, S. (2016). Introduction. In: Was Communism Doomed?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32780-8_1
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