The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution

Herausgeber: Riley, Alexander; Siewers, Alfred Kentigern

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution. The contributors provide sober depictions of the nature of Bolshevism and detail the dangers of utopian politics and ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetics of moral perfectionism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605351
• ISBN-10: 1793605351
• Artikelnr.: 61196167

Autorenporträt

Edited by Alexander Riley; Alfred Kentigern Siewers and Alfred Kentigern Siewers - Contributions by Stéphane Co...

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Challenging Bolshevik Myth and the Poetry of Totalitarianism, by
Alexander Riley
Chapter 1: Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Invention of
Totalitarianism, by Stéphane Courtois
Chapter 2: The Russian Revolution and the Soviet System: Significance,
Impact and Western Perceptions, by Paul Hollander
Chapter 3: Soldiers for Stalin: Why American Communists Betrayed Their Own
Country and Spied for the Soviet Union, by Ronald Radosh
Afterword: The Valley of Dry Bones: Towards a Rhetoric of True Resistance,
by Alfred Siewers