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The Soviet Experiment
Author | : Ronald Grigor Suny |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195340558 |
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Focusing on the eras of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, a multi-layered account of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union chronicles and analyzes the Soviet experiment from the tsar to the first president of the Russian republic. UP.
The Soviet Experiment
Author | : Ronald Grigor Suny |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195081048 |
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Focusing on the eras of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, a multi-layered account of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union chronicles and analyzes the Soviet experiment from the tsar to the first president of the Russian republic. UP.
The Soviet Experiment
Author | : Ronald Grigor Suny |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Social change |
ISBN | : OCLC:1282295671 |
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Red Flag Wounded
Author | : Ronald Suny |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781788730747 |
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Tracking the degeneration of the Russian Revolution 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.
The Dangerous God
Author | : Dominic Erdozain |
Publsiher | : Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781501757693 |
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At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.
Americans and the Soviet Experiment 1917 1933
Author | : Peter G. Filene |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 067486607X |
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Showcasing the Great Experiment
Author | : Michael David-Fox |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199794577 |
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Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, it reinterprets one of the great cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters of the twentieth century.
The Plot to Kill God
Author | : Paul Froese |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008-08-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520942736 |
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Paul Froese explores the nature of religious faith in a provocative examination of the most massive atheism campaign in human history. That campaign occurred after the 1917 Russian Revolution, when Soviet plans for a new Marxist utopia included the total eradication of all religion. Even though the Soviet Union's attempt to secularize its society was quite successful at crushing the institutional and ritual manifestations of religion, its leaders were surprised at the persistence of religious belief. Froese's account reveals how atheism, when taken to its extreme, can become as dogmatic and oppressive as any religious faith and illuminates the struggle for individual expression in the face of social repression.