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There are many books but I personally suggest the following :-
1) The Twelve Caesars. by Suetonius and translated by Robert Graves.
2)The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon.
3)The Roman Revolution. by Ronald Syme.
The Roman Triumph. by Mary Beard.
4)Pagans and Christians. by Robin Lane Fox.
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Most current communist groups descended from the Maoist ideological tradition still adopt the description of both China and the Soviet Union as being state capitalist from a certain point in their history onwards—most commonly, the Soviet Union from 1956 to its collapse in 1991 and China from 1976 to the present.