Totalitarian Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution

This book analyzes the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution. The contributors provide sober depictions of the nature of Bolshevism and detail the dangers of utopian politics and ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetics of moral perfectionism.

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Alexander Riley and Alfred Kentigern Siewers - Contributions by Stéphane Courtois; Paul Hollander and Ronald Radosh

Summary

This book analyzes the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution. The contributors provide sober depictions of the nature of Bolshevism and detail the dangers of utopian politics and ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetics of moral perfectionism.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Riley, Alexander Siewers Riley
• Assisted by: Alexander Riley (Editor), Riley Alexander (Editor), Alfred Kentigern Siewers (Editor), Siewers Alfred Kentigern (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781793605337
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-533-7
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Russia, HISTORY / World, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era