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authoritative history of the Soviet Communist Party
for our time."-PROFESSOR MERLE FAINSOD,
Harvard
University
"A notable contribution to an understanding of the
Communist movement today. The first time that the
history of the Soviet Communist Party has been
told by a non-Communist in a single volume from
its early antecedents to Nikita Khrushchev."
-HAROLD H. FISHER,
Professor of International
Relations, San Francisco State College, Professor
of History and Chairman Emeritus, The Hoover
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