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The George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1967 - Social structure - Class struggle - The Soviet Union and the Chinese Revolution.Tags
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Standing almost half way between the events of 1917 and now, this book provides a fascinating midpoint look at Soviet Communism. Deutscher sees things so clearly, and expounds them in a similar manner.
He recognises the inherent dangers of defeat for the Soviet system as it struggles with its failures - the lack of support to other potential revolutions, the overbearing bureaucracy of Russian society and the lack of proletarian input - but, he offers hope. He surmises, from other revolutions, that restoration is followed by rehabilitation, whereby the best of the revolutions aspects are restored.
He recognises the inherent dangers of defeat for the Soviet system as it struggles with its failures - the lack of support to other potential revolutions, the overbearing bureaucracy of Russian society and the lack of proletarian input - but, he offers hope. He surmises, from other revolutions, that restoration is followed by rehabilitation, whereby the best of the revolutions aspects are restored.
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Isaac Deutscher was born in 1907 near Krakow and joined the Polish Communist Party in 1926. After his expulsion in 1932, he maintained his opposition to the general drift of Comintern policy in the 1930s. He moved to London in 1939 and continued his journalistic activity until 1946, devoting the rest of his life to historical research
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Aldusserien (203)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Unfinished Revolution: Russia, 1917-1967
- Important places
- Russia; USSR
- Important events
- Russian Revolution
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 947.084 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist period
- LCC
- DK265.9 .I5 .D4 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History Revolution, 1917-1921
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- 8 — Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Swedish
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- Paper
- ISBNs
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