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Ironies of History: Essays on Contemporary Communism, by Isaac Deutscher
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The Forecasts of prophets, politicians, and social scientists have been dealt harsh blows by events of the last decade. Border clashes between the USSR and Communist China and calls to the “fraternal” people of the other side to overthrow its leaders; 400,000 U.S. troops fighting to contain Communism on the Asian continent, while the President of the United States seeks to build bridges to the Communist states of East Europe; desperate struggle in the Chinese Communist leadership even in Mao’s lifetime, with millions of non-Communists involved as they never were in Soviet factional strife: who foresaw such things a decade ago?
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