The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution

Herausgeber: Riley, Alexander

• Gebundenes 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: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9781793605337
• ISBN-10: 1793605335
• Artikelnr.: 56150588

Autorenporträt

Alexander Riley is professor of sociology at Bucknell University. Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English at Bucknell University.

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