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The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350117907)
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xHow did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold War.
The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution reasons that these arguments are too simplistic. Rather, the journey from Bolshevik liberation to totalitarianism was riddled with unsuccessful experiments, compromises, confusion, panic, self-interest and over-optimism. As this book reveals, the emergence (and persistence) of the Bolshevik dictatorship was, in fact, the complicated product of a failed democratic transition.
Drawing on long-ignored archival sources and original research, this fascinating volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to reconsider one of the most important and controversial questions of 20th-century history: how to explain the rise of the repressive Stalinist dictatorship.
Author: Lara Douds
ISBN-10: 1350117900
ISBN-13: 9781350117907
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2021
The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution reasons that these arguments are too simplistic. Rather, the journey from Bolshevik liberation to totalitarianism was riddled with unsuccessful experiments, compromises, confusion, panic, self-interest and over-optimism. As this book reveals, the emergence (and persistence) of the Bolshevik dictatorship was, in fact, the complicated product of a failed democratic transition.
Drawing on long-ignored archival sources and original research, this fascinating volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to reconsider one of the most important and controversial questions of 20th-century history: how to explain the rise of the repressive Stalinist dictatorship.
Author: Lara Douds
ISBN-10: 1350117900
ISBN-13: 9781350117907
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2021
By Lara Douds
xLara Douds is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in History at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Inside Lenin's Government: Power, Ideology and Practice in the Early Soviet State (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
James Harris is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the Author of The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s (2016) and The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System (1999). He has edited multiple volumes on Soviet History, including The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin (2013) and Stalin's World: Dictating the Soviet Order (2014, co-edited with Sarah Davies).
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