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The Dictator, The Revolution, The Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
Tony Mckenna
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; JPFC; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 43. Weight in Grams: 318.
It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for all by showing how October was inspired by a profound mass movement comprised of urban workers and rural poor -- a movement that went on to forge a state capable of channelling its political will in and through the most overwhelming form of grass-roots democracy history has ever known. It was a single, precarious experiment whose life was tragically brief. In ... Read more
It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for all by showing how October was inspired by a profound mass movement comprised of urban workers and rural poor -- a movement that went on to forge a state capable of channelling its political will in and through the most overwhelming form of grass-roots democracy history has ever known. It was a single, precarious experiment whose life was tragically brief. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198268
SKU
V9781845198268
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99-50
About Tony Mckenna
Tony McKenna is a writer whose work has been featured by The Huffington Post, ABC Australia, The United Nations, New Statesman, The Progressive, New Internationalist and New Humanist. His first book, Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective, was published by Macmillan in 2015.
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