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Subject(s)

• Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 [Browse]
• Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Historiography [Browse]

Summary note

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal upturning of a peasant society but also by the modernization and industrialization of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism. Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction. Lessons of October: The Fate of Democracy and Socialism in the Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution
• Part I. Stalin and Stalinism : 1. Making Sense of Stalin: His Biographers
• 2. Stalin and His Stalinism: Power and Authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-53
• 3. Rethinking Soviet Studies: Bringing the Non-Russians Back In
• 4. Living in the Soviet Century: Moshe Lewin, 1921-2010
• 5. Writing Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick and the History of Stalinism
• Part II. Detours, Dead Ends, Ways Out : 6. The Evil Empire Revisited: Stephen F. Cohen and the History and Politics of the USSR
• 7. Socialism, Post-Socialism, and the Appropriately Modern: Two Competing Paradigms
• 8. Gorbachev and History: Why the Soviet Union Fell Apart
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781788730730 ((library))
• 1788730739 ((library))
• 1788730747 ((paperback))
• 9781788730747 ((paperback))

OCLC

1162775254

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