content: This book is propaganda pure and simple. I had to read this for a poli sci class last semester and it is horrible. It begins with the increaing interest in Marxism and socialism. And then goes on to profile che guvara and Castro and the implications for socialism after the 5 billion dollar subsidies dried up after the early 1990's.Don't waste your time buying or reading this extremely short and biased work. Their is no information and only tiny philosophical reasons why communism didn't fail after the U.S.S.R fall. Very short and biased and contains nothing of substance. Also very expensive for what amounts to propaganda.