Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution (Contemporary Western Rusistika) (Russian Edition) - Hardcover

Corney, Frederick C.

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798887195940

Publisher: BiblioRossica, 2024

Synopsis

ENG

Telling October examines the rich and accretive processes by which the new Soviet regime sought to construct the events of 1917 as a major revolutionary event, indeed a foundation event, for the new Communist state. As a "memory project," it sought to socialize generations of Soviet citizens into an understanding of "October" as just such a watershed event. Although by no means completely successful, these efforts still leave their traces today in modern Russia.

RUS

Книга Фредерика Корни посвящена анализу процессов, с помощью которых советский режим сделал Октябрьскую революцию 1917 года основополагающим событием для нового коммунистического государства. Этот «проект памяти» был сконструирован так, чтобы объединить поколения советских граждан в понимании Октября как точки эпохального перелома. Несмотря на далеко не полный успех, следы этих усилий и сегодня заметны в российском общественном сознании.

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About the Author

Frederick Corney is Professor of History at William & Mary. He earned his Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Columbia University in New York. He also spent several years working as a professional translator in the UK and Germany. He specializes in the early revolutionary history of Soviet Russia, with an emphasis on the politics of cultural memory production. He has produced edited English translations of a literary polemic surrounding Lev Trotskii (Trotsky’s Challenge: The ‘Literary Discussion’ and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution) with Brill in 2015, and of Лев Крицман, Героический период Великой Русской Революции (опыт анализа т.н."военного коммунизма") with Brill in 2024.

Edition details

• Publisher: BiblioRossica
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: Russian
• ISBN 13: 9798887195940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408