The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution
Publication Date
6-2019
Description
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 file. -- publisher
ISBN
9781793605337
Keywords
Bolshevik Revolution, Totalitarianism, Communism, Soviet Union, History
Disciplines
European History | Military History | Political History
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham, Maryland
Department
Sociology & Anthropology
Second Department
English
Files
Recommended Citation
Riley, Alexander and Siewers, Paul, "The Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution" (2019). Faculty Books. 56.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/56
Comments
Alexander Riley, (Sociology & Anthropology), editor ; Alfred Kentigern Siewers, (English), editor
Foreward:
Challenging Bolshevik Myth and the Poetry of Totalitarianism -- Alexander Riley, author ; p. xi-xxxiii
Afterword:
The Valley of Dry Bones: Towards a Rhetoric of True Resistance -- Alfred Kentigern Siewers, author ; p. 83-93