CSS Bookshops Buyer Protection Payments will be held in escrow until you confirm delivery. Disputes are reviewed by our team. How protection works →

Why Communism Failed

Brains & Noble

View all books from Brains & Noble

Pricing

₦28,500.00 /

3 available

Minimum order qty 1

QTY

About this item

Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Item number: 3489

Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:09 PM

Item specifics

Category Brains & Noble > History

Condition new

SKU BN-87299

Item description from the seller

With the benefit of new archival research, we can finally grasp how falsified and manipulated statistics blindfolded Communist governments and confused western leaders, leading to staggering errors of judgement. Both sides believed that East Germany had a stronger economy than West Germany; that North Korea would overtake South Korea; that Mao’s China was a paradise for its starving peasants. Those who warned that a dearth of reliable economic data would condemn central planning to irrational misallocation of investment and labour were ignored or belittled. But, ultimately, they were vindicated. Jasper Becker answers the big question: what accounts for the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union, China and everywhere else? And why don’t present debates acknowledge that failure? This unconventional history of Communism and the Cold War explains why the same old clash of theories is continuing to shape the world today.