What Was Bolshevism?

AvLars T. Lih

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 298 i serien Historical Materialism Book Series

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How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders – Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev – to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt:1 111 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Historical Materialism Book Series
Antal sidor:582
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004684454

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Lars T. Lih (Ph.D. 1984, Princeton University) has published extensively on Russian and Soviet history and politics. What Was Bolshevism? sums up a scholarly lifetime, combining hard-to-access articles spanning three decades along with new essays written for this volume.

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AcknowledgementsOriginal PublicationIntroduction: What Was Bolshevism?Part 1 Overview1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition2 The Soviet Union and the Path to CommunismPart 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921)3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard4 The Mystery of the ABC5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by BolsheviksPart 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921)6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921)9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 192011 Zinoviev: Populist LeninistPart 5 NEP (1921–1930)12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEPPart 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953)14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He?Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991)19 Perestroika Looks BackBibliographyIndex