Red Flag Unfurled

History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution

Ronald Suny

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English

Verso
01 December 2017

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Russian Revolution

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.

By: Ronald Suny
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 604g
ISBN: 9781784785642
ISBN 10: 1784785644
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution

Praise for They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide -Suny is admirably dispassionate in explaining the particular circumstances that led the Ottoman government to embark on a policy of mass extermination.- --Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times -What distinguishes Suny's scholarship is a scrupulous attention to context and the genuine imperial anxiety of the Young Turks. They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (a title taken from another Talat diktat) is a fair-minded account. Unsparing in-depicting the viciousness of the killing, forced conversions and kidnapping of children and young women, it is rigorous in its choice of language and nuance, generous in its empathy but implacable in its conclusions.- --David Gardner, Financial Times