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Telling October - Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution

Russian · Hardback

Will be released 07.05.2024

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Telling October examines the rich and accretive processes by which the new Soviet regime sought to construct the events of 1917 as a major revolutionary event, indeed a foundation event, for the new Communist state. As a "memory project," it sought to socialize generations of Soviet citizens into an understanding of "October" as just such a watershed event. Although by no means completely successful, these efforts still leave their traces today in modern Russia.

RUS
Книга Фредерика Корни посвящена анализу процессов, с помощью которых советский режим сделал Октябрьскую революцию 1917 года основополагающим событием для нового коммунистического государства. Этот «проект памяти» был сконструирован так, чтобы объединить поколения советских граждан в понимании Октября как точки эпохального перелома. Несмотря на далеко не полный у

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ENGFrederick Corney is Professor of History at William & Mary. He earned his Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Columbia University in New York. He also spent several years working as a professional translator in the UK and Germany. He specializes in the early revolutionary history of Soviet Russia, with an emphasis on the politics of cultural memory production. He has produced edited English translations of a literary polemic surrounding Lev Trotskii (Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution) with Brill in 2015, and of Лев Крицман, Героический период Великой Русской Революции (опыт анализа т.н."военного коммунизма") with Brill in 2024.



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Фредерик Корни - профессор истории в Колледже Вильяма и Мэри. Он специализируется на истории Советской России революционного периода, уделяя особое внимание политике производства культурной памяти. Под его редакцией были переведены на английский язык книга Trotsky's Challenge: The 'Literary Discussion' and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, которую составили тексты, представляющие литературную полемику вокруг Льва Троцкого, и книга Льва Крицмана 'Героический период Великой Русской Революции (опыт анализа так называемого военного коммунизма)'.


Product details

Authors Corney Frederick C.
Assisted by Kupriyanova Elena (Translation)
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages Russian
Product format Hardback
Release 07.05.2024, delayed
 
EAN 9798887195940
ISBN 979-8-88719-594-0
No. of pages 408
Series Contemporary Western Rusistika
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Soviet regime, Communist state, Soviet citizens, "October"

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