Red flag unfurled : history, historians, and the Russian Revolution /
Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the world's leading historians of the period, explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism and the end of "Communism" and provides an assessment of the ach...
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso Books,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: making history and the historian
- Part I. History and historians
- Back and beyond? Reversing the cultural turn
- Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the West wrote its history of the USSR
- The empire strikes out: imperial Russia, national identity, and theories of empire
- Part II. Russia's revolutions
- Toward a social history of the October Revolution
- Revision and retreat in the historiography of 1917: social history and its critics
- Breaking eggs, making omelets: violence and terror in Russia's civil wars.