The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communism

General editor Rodney P. Carlisle earned a B.A. in history from Harvard University and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former chair of the history department at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, where he taught for more than 30 years, specializing in 20th-century history. Carlisle is show more now professor emeritus there. He has written and edited many articles and more than 10 books on history, including The Thirties in Facts On File's Day by Day series. show less