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Original Title:	Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
ISBN:	1893554457 (ISBN13: 9781893554450)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Nominee for History (Finalist) (2003)

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism

Joshua Muravchik

Hardcover | Pages: 417 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 183 Users | 28 Reviews

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Title	:	Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Author	:	Joshua Muravchik
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 417 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2002 by Encounter Books
Categories	:	History. Politics. Economics. Nonfiction

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Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in 'science'. Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to 'the New Man'. Each failure inspired new searches for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World socialism. None worked, and some exacted staggering human tolls. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. This book traces this fiery trajectory through sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse. Muravchik's accomplishment in 'Heaven on Earth' is to tell a story filled with character and event while at the same time giving us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside down -- and for a time succeeded.

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This book is an extensive, eye-opening coverage of the history of socialism. It reads like a novel, but unfortunately, it is reality. This should be required reading for freshman college students.

Very engaging and thoughtful book. While socialism might have many potentially endearing characteristics theoretically, the practical implication is that it so misses on the nature of man it requires oppressive, controlling and often brutal political means to insure economic compliance. Surely capitalism has its problems as we are well aware of and living through, however, given socialism's miserable and destructive track record both economically and the political oppression it requires to

"The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt; they commit abominable deeds." --Psalm 14:1"Professing to be wise, they became fools" --Romans 1:22That's pretty much sums up this book. A very good book on man's attempt to establish heaven on earth without God and the disastrous consequences therein. The twentieth century saw the incarnation of the godless ideas propounded in the nineteenth century. The twentieth century was by far the bloodiest century."So then by your fruits

Damn, sounds really intelligent for any novice reader, but after hundreds of books on the subject, including sources like K. Marx, etc. and some fact checking, this becomes a total B.S.

A socialist is someone who, having seen birds fly, stands on the edge of cliff and insists, "I'm sure that if I just flap my arms fast enough, I could fly too." This is even AFTER someone points out the large pile of bodies at the foot of the cliff.

Loved it - a bit one sided at times, however it was historical, contextual text chronicalling the rise, peak and fall of socialism.

Great book! I found the chapters about the French Revolution and the Israeli kibbutz project the most informative.