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Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors: Volume II, Poets

Text: English, Greek (translation)Original Language: Greek

From the overthrow of the tsars until the sudden collapse of Soviet communism, the most influential Western analysts have reflected on and debated the rise and fall of communism in the pages of the...