1917
A01=Ronald Suny
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Ronald Suny
automatic-update
Bolsheviks
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJD
Category=HBLW
Category=HBTV4
Category=NHD
Category=NHTV
Communism
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
October Revolution
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Russian Revolution
Socialism
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781784785642
- Weight: 604g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the story usually told is one of failure and inevitable collapse, Suny reevaluates the promises, missed opportunities, achievements, and colossal costs of trying to build a kind of "socialism" in the inhospitable environment of peasant Russia. He ponders what lessons 1917 provides for Marxism and the alternatives to capitalism and bourgeois democracy.
Ronald Grigor Suny is professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His previous books include The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, and A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.
