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Communism: A Coroner’s Inquest

Issue Date Fall 1990
Volume 1
Issue 4
Page Numbers 3-6
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About the Author

Pierre Hassner is director of research emeritus at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris and for many years was a lecturer in international relations at the European Center of Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy.

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