Communism: The god that failed in more than one place

I first read The God That Failed in 1955 as a precocious first year student at Presidency College, now Presidency University, Kolkata. The Cold War was under way in all its icy antagonisms, and debates over the validity of Marxism and the character of communist states in the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe, dominated global discourse. Finishing reading, I was filled with a profound sense of disquiet.

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