{"product_id":"the-fate-of-the-bolshevik-lara-douds-9781350117907","title":"The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41","description":"How 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lara Douds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350117900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350117907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021","brand":"Lara Douds","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064352665855,"sku":"9781350117907","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_764b2c4d-d44d-4df8-837e-d0647f7aa9ea.jpg?v=1685394975","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-fate-of-the-bolshevik-lara-douds-9781350117907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}