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The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41
Contributor(s): Douds, Lara (Editor), Harris, James (Editor), Whitewood, Peter (Editor)
ISBN: 1350117900     ISBN-13: 9781350117907
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $118.80  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- History | Modern - 20th Century
- History | Revolutionary
Dewey: 947.084
Series: Library of Modern Russia
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.41 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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.

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.