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It's an ok book, some interesting examples, but not something to write home about.
The author is Russian and this experience is what drives the book. It is his desire to show that communism is the great evil dating back to the beginning of human history.
He does make an interesting distinction between state socialism and what i would term utopian socialism but what he designates as chiliastic socialism, a term i intend to use, this is the best thing i got out of the book.
He traces the two ideas from Plato, Cathars, Anabaptists, Incas, ancient Chinese and more. There is more about him in these chapters than there is good history on the topics.
With the overswhelming desire to show that socialism means commonality of property and often commonality of wives. He has a chapter on the end of individualization under socialism and ends with socialism as a mass death wish.
Overall the book told me more about how communism deformed people in Russia then it did about the history of socialism.
The book however does have a natural audience, either high school students trying to get a grasp on socialism as a (im)moral movement, or trying to capture that great big view of human history, that sweep of the pen that covers millenium. The details in these cases are not as important as the passion of writing, which the book has in abundance. ( )