The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Riley, Alexander; Siewers, Alfred Kentigern

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona files.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793605344
• Artikelnr.: 56951861

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