Red Flag Wounded - Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment

Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were marked not only by violence, mass killing, and the brutal overturning of a peasant society but also by the modernisation and industrialisation of the largest country in the world, the victory over fascism, and the slow recovery of society after the nightmare of Stalinism.

Ronald Grigor Suny is one of the most prominent experts on the revolution, the fate of the non-Russian peoples of the Soviet empire, and the twists and turns of Western historiography of the Soviet experience. As a biographer of Stalin and a long-time commentator on Russian and Soviet affairs, he brings novel insights to a history that has been misunderstood and deliberately distorted in the public sphere. For a fresh look at a story that affects our world today, this is the place to begin.

About the author

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Soviet Experiment; Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution; and "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide.

Summary

Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Suny, Suny Ronald
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781788730747
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-074-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Library Hardback
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Russian Revolution, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1910 to c 1919, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Russia / General