Red flag wounded: stalinism and the fate of the Soviet experiment
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Beteilige Person: Suny, Ronald Grigor 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Verso 2020
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Abstract: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
Umfang:266 Seiten
ISBN:9781788730747
9781788730730