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Description

In this collection, world-renowned scholars of Bolshevism and world communism analyze the human costs of the Bolshevik Revolution, its contribution to the spread of totalitarianism, and the responses it inspired among American and Western intellectuals. Together, their essays constitute a profound refusal of the poesy of totalitarianism that is based on sober research and detailed analysis of the limits of utopian politics and the dangers of cruel ideologies based in the cosmetic aesthetic of moral perfectionism and lyric intoxication. This study provides an accurate and succinct depiction of the nature of Bolshevism and its consequences in light of several decades of research, including former Soviet archival materials and American intelligence such as the Venona files.

Table 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

Product details

Published Jun 18 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 136
ISBN 9781793605337
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Alexander Riley

Contributor

Paul Hollander

Contributor

Ronald Radosh

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